Since you mentioned 'HTML div with text-align:center and vertical-align:middle', I'll assume that you might be interested in some more technical information about this. Also, you can add text and it should remain centered horizontally. You can enlarge the rectangular text area without enlarging the text - the trick to this is to make sure you select and resize the rectangular text area and not the text itself - do this by double clicking on the text. Then, as brynn suggested, use the 'Text and Font' dialog to center horizontally. Then type your text in this rectangular area. Instead of just clicking at one spot on your diagram and then typing text, you should click and drag which will create a rectangular area for text. rectangle) and then create text and then combine them with 'flow into frame', you can use the 'create and edit text objects' button. If you want to do what you requested, except for the vertical centering, and you don't want to explicitly create a new object (e.g. So far I've found that most of this can be achieved with Inkscape except for the vertical centering (of horizontal text), which is also important to me.Īs you mentioned, '.The 'Flow into Frame' effect seems to do the trick, except for the vertical centering.'. However, even with this extension made explicit (being implicit from the suggested transform-hack above) I am still lacking a solution.I'm looking for the same functionality as you describe. So it would be okay (re)calculate the position of the SVG text element in the browser to make it usable for Inkscape. I am using the browser with JavaScript to generate the svg. ( How to center SVG text vertically in IE9) Update I found a transform-hack that seems to work in Inkscape, but I cannot figure out how to get the same effect as with the dominant-baseline: text-before-edge-effect. (Though the horizontal alignment with the text-anchor seems well supported.) But I need Inkscape support. However, unfortunately Inkscape does not support the vertical alignment with the dominant-baseline-style yet. The bounding-box is exactly touching the line from below which can be seen by selecting/highlighting the text. This example with a SVG line works great in Firefox: I am trying to align SVG text under another SVG object.

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