Circled number with pure CSS

April 24, 2012 CSS HTML Snippet

CSS3 has introduced some nice features, one of them is rounded corners. This is a little snippet to create a circled number looking like this:

The CSS:

<style>

span.step {
  background: #cccccc;
  border-radius: 0.8em;
  -moz-border-radius: 0.8em;
  -webkit-border-radius: 0.8em;
  color: #ffffff;
  display: inline-block;
  font-weight: bold;
  line-height: 1.6em;
  margin-right: 5px;
  text-align: center;
  width: 1.6em; 
}

</style>

The HTML:

<span class="step">1</span>

A couple of tips:
If you want a bigger circle, change either font-size to enlarge everything by the same amount (both text and circle) or width, line-height and the border-radius' to only affect the circle (border-radius = half of the width and line-height values).
To center the circle with other text, place it in an element where you set a line-height that equals or exceeds the one of the circle.

Circled number with pure CSS

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