diff --git a/php-transformer/src/HtmlToBlocks/Style/GeneratedBlockStyleProjector.php b/php-transformer/src/HtmlToBlocks/Style/GeneratedBlockStyleProjector.php
index a3d58f763..c93fc81eb 100644
--- a/php-transformer/src/HtmlToBlocks/Style/GeneratedBlockStyleProjector.php
+++ b/php-transformer/src/HtmlToBlocks/Style/GeneratedBlockStyleProjector.php
@@ -284,8 +284,14 @@ public function registerNativeButtonStyleRule(
                 // width; an intrinsic one would shrink it to its label.
             } elseif ( ! $hasAuthoredWidth && in_array(CssValueInspector::comparable((string) ($sourceDeclarations['display'] ?? '')), array( 'flex', 'inline-flex', 'inline-block', 'inline-grid', 'inline-table' ), true) ) {
                 if ( 'center' === $inheritedTextAlignment ) {
-                    $outerWrapperDeclarations[] = 'width:100%';
-                    $outerWrapperDeclarations[] = 'max-width:100%';
+                    // A flex or grid item shrinks to its content unless told to
+                    // fill. In block flow the wrapper already spans its line,
+                    // inside the margins the control's rules may give it; a
+                    // 100% width would push it past them and off center.
+                    if ( ! $this->sourceParentIsBlockContainer($sourceControl) ) {
+                        $outerWrapperDeclarations[] = 'width:100%';
+                        $outerWrapperDeclarations[] = 'max-width:100%';
+                    }
                 } else {
                     $outerWrapperDeclarations[] = 'width:max-content';
                     $outerWrapperDeclarations[] = 'max-width:100%';
@@ -817,6 +823,17 @@ private function sourceControlFillsFlowLine(DOMElement $sourceControl, array $so
         return in_array($parentDisplay, array( '', 'block', 'flow-root', 'list-item' ), true);
     }
 
+    private function sourceParentIsBlockContainer(DOMElement $sourceControl): bool
+    {
+        $parent = $sourceControl->parentNode;
+        if ( ! $parent instanceof DOMElement ) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        $display = CssValueInspector::comparable((string) ($this->styleResolver->cssDeclarations($this->styleResolver->specificityResolvedPresentationStyle($parent))['display'] ?? ''));
+
+        return in_array($display, array( '', 'block', 'flow-root', 'list-item', 'inline-block', 'table-cell' ), true);
+    }
+
     private function sourceControlFillsGridCell(DOMElement $sourceControl, array $sourceDeclarations): bool
     {
         if ( ! in_array(CssValueInspector::comparable((string) ($sourceDeclarations['display'] ?? '')), array( 'flex', 'grid', 'table' ), true) ) {
diff --git a/php-transformer/tests/fixtures/centered-button-margins.html b/php-transformer/tests/fixtures/centered-button-margins.html
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5f4a7eefa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/php-transformer/tests/fixtures/centered-button-margins.html
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<!doctype html>
+<html><head><style>
+body{margin:0;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px}
+.amounts{margin:0;padding:24px;list-style:none;text-align:center}
+.amounts li{display:inline-block;vertical-align:top}
+.btn{display:inline-block;padding:12px 24px;border:2px solid #333;background:none;font-size:18px}
+.amounts .btn{min-width:80px;margin-right:8px;margin-left:8px}
+</style></head><body>
+<main><ul class="amounts"><li><button class="btn" type="button">50</button></li><li><button class="btn" type="button">100</button></li></ul></main>
+</body></html>
diff --git a/php-transformer/tests/unit/inherited-text-align-button-justification.php b/php-transformer/tests/unit/inherited-text-align-button-justification.php
index 826ae7291..9876512b9 100644
--- a/php-transformer/tests/unit/inherited-text-align-button-justification.php
+++ b/php-transformer/tests/unit/inherited-text-align-button-justification.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * `text-align` becomes a core/buttons flex wrapper whose default main-axis
  * alignment is left. The inherited alignment must be restated as
  * layout.justifyContent or the source's centering is lost. The restated
- * justification only has room to act when the wrapper fills its parent, so
+ * justification only has room to act when the wrapper spans its line, so
  * the generated wrapper rule must not shrink-wrap a centered wrapper.
  *
  * Regression for Automattic/blocks-engine#2150: the wrapper consulted only the
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@
     $centeredButtons
 );
 
-// The restated justification has no room to act on a shrink-wrapped wrapper:
-// the generated wrapper rule must fill the parent instead, the way the source
+// The restated justification has no room to act on a shrink-wrapped wrapper.
+// In block flow the flex wrapper spans its line on its own, the way the source
 // block the control sat in did, while the button itself still hugs its label.
 $centeredMarker = $controlMarkerOf($centeredButtons);
 $centeredCss = $cssFor($centeredOut);
@@ -103,11 +103,6 @@
     'the centered control carries a generated control marker',
     $centeredButtons
 );
-$assert(
-    1 === preg_match('/' . preg_quote($centeredMarker, '/') . '\.' . preg_quote($centeredMarker, '/') . '\.wp-block-buttons\{width:100%;max-width:100%\}/', $centeredCss),
-    'a centered inline control fills its parent buttons wrapper instead of shrink-wrapping it',
-    $centeredCss
-);
 $assert(
     ! preg_match('/' . preg_quote($centeredMarker, '/') . '\.' . preg_quote($centeredMarker, '/') . '\.wp-block-buttons\{width:max-content/', $centeredCss),
     'the centered buttons wrapper is not pinned to max-content',
diff --git a/php-transformer/tools/visual-parity/package.json b/php-transformer/tools/visual-parity/package.json
index d601e952f..79da4bf27 100644
--- a/php-transformer/tools/visual-parity/package.json
+++ b/php-transformer/tools/visual-parity/package.json
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     "test:navigation-cluster-control": "node tests/navigation-cluster-trailing-control.mjs",
     "test:conditional-native-button": "node tests/conditional-native-button.mjs",
     "test:declared-body": "node tests/declared-document-role-button.mjs",
-    "test": "node tests/smoke.mjs && node tests/blockquote-margin-reset.mjs && node tests/synthetic-inline-image-percentage.mjs && node tests/linked-flex-item-image.mjs && node tests/inline-block-item-spacing.mjs && node tests/exact-fit-inline-flow.mjs && node tests/layout-shell-editor-dom.mjs && node tests/layout-shell-editor-geometry.mjs && node tests/layout-shell-editor-selectability.mjs && node tests/custom-video-host-editor-geometry.mjs && node tests/issue-1493-reduced-public-fixture.mjs && node tests/responsive-document-variants.mjs && node tests/image-custom-host-promotion.mjs && node tests/empty-group-editor-height.mjs && node tests/button-height-ownership.mjs && node tests/button-padding-height.mjs && node tests/positioned-button-containing-block.mjs && node tests/positioned-button-translate-once.mjs && node tests/positioned-button-shrink-to-fit.mjs && node tests/inline-control-line-box.mjs && node tests/flex-button-row-shrink-to-fit.mjs && node tests/navigation-layout-default.mjs && node tests/navigation-hover-focus-projection.mjs && node tests/navigation-overlay-duplicate-collapse.mjs && node tests/navigation-responsive-desktop-justification.mjs && node tests/navigation-overlay-source-breakpoint.mjs && node tests/navigation-open-button-source-placement.mjs && node tests/form-row-two-column-geometry.mjs && node tests/color-scheme-projection.mjs && node tests/shared-shell-route-cascade.mjs && node tests/responsive-counterpart-text-sync.mjs && node tests/positioned-carousel-visibility.mjs && node tests/authored-carousel-source-scope.mjs && node tests/empty-overlay-opacity.mjs && node tests/authored-carousel-stage-geometry.mjs && node tests/gallery-stage-controls.mjs && node tests/nested-responsive-font-size.mjs && node tests/responsive-layered-block-margin.mjs && node tests/svg-checkable-control.mjs && node tests/source-root-includes.mjs && node tests/captured-choice-group-runtime.mjs && node tests/differential-corpus.mjs",
+    "test": "node tests/smoke.mjs && node tests/blockquote-margin-reset.mjs && node tests/synthetic-inline-image-percentage.mjs && node tests/linked-flex-item-image.mjs && node tests/centered-button-margins.mjs && node tests/inline-block-item-spacing.mjs && node tests/exact-fit-inline-flow.mjs && node tests/layout-shell-editor-dom.mjs && node tests/layout-shell-editor-geometry.mjs && node tests/layout-shell-editor-selectability.mjs && node tests/custom-video-host-editor-geometry.mjs && node tests/issue-1493-reduced-public-fixture.mjs && node tests/responsive-document-variants.mjs && node tests/image-custom-host-promotion.mjs && node tests/empty-group-editor-height.mjs && node tests/button-height-ownership.mjs && node tests/button-padding-height.mjs && node tests/positioned-button-containing-block.mjs && node tests/positioned-button-translate-once.mjs && node tests/positioned-button-shrink-to-fit.mjs && node tests/inline-control-line-box.mjs && node tests/flex-button-row-shrink-to-fit.mjs && node tests/navigation-layout-default.mjs && node tests/navigation-hover-focus-projection.mjs && node tests/navigation-overlay-duplicate-collapse.mjs && node tests/navigation-responsive-desktop-justification.mjs && node tests/navigation-overlay-source-breakpoint.mjs && node tests/navigation-open-button-source-placement.mjs && node tests/form-row-two-column-geometry.mjs && node tests/color-scheme-projection.mjs && node tests/shared-shell-route-cascade.mjs && node tests/responsive-counterpart-text-sync.mjs && node tests/positioned-carousel-visibility.mjs && node tests/authored-carousel-source-scope.mjs && node tests/empty-overlay-opacity.mjs && node tests/authored-carousel-stage-geometry.mjs && node tests/gallery-stage-controls.mjs && node tests/nested-responsive-font-size.mjs && node tests/responsive-layered-block-margin.mjs && node tests/svg-checkable-control.mjs && node tests/source-root-includes.mjs && node tests/captured-choice-group-runtime.mjs && node tests/differential-corpus.mjs",
     "test:differential": "node tests/differential-corpus.mjs"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
diff --git a/php-transformer/tools/visual-parity/tests/centered-button-margins.mjs b/php-transformer/tools/visual-parity/tests/centered-button-margins.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b14472667
--- /dev/null
+++ b/php-transformer/tools/visual-parity/tests/centered-button-margins.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
+import { chromium } from 'playwright';
+
+// A centered inline-block control with side margins keeps those margins
+// inside its block-flow item: the item is as wide as in the source and the
+// control sits at the same offset within it.
+const root = new URL('../../..', import.meta.url).pathname;
+const source = readFileSync(`${root}/tests/fixtures/centered-button-margins.html`, 'utf8');
+const result = JSON.parse(execFileSync('php', ['-r', 'require $argv[1] . "/vendor/autoload.php"; echo json_encode((new Automattic\\BlocksEngine\\PhpTransformer\\HtmlToBlocks\\HtmlTransformer())->transform(base64_decode($argv[2]))->toArray());', root, Buffer.from(source).toString('base64')], { encoding: 'utf8' }));
+const css = result.assets.filter(asset => asset.kind === 'css').map(asset => asset.content).join('\n');
+// WordPress renders a flex layout's justifyContent as a justification class.
+const blocks = result.serialized_blocks.replace(/<!-- wp:buttons (\{.*?\}) -->\s*<div class="wp-block-buttons/g, (match, attrs) => {
+  const justify = JSON.parse(attrs).layout?.justifyContent;
+  return justify ? match.replace('class="wp-block-buttons', `class="wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-${justify}`) : match;
+});
+const target = `<!doctype html><style>.wp-block-buttons{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap}.wp-block-buttons.is-content-justification-center{justify-content:center}\n${css}</style>${blocks}`;
+const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: true });
+try {
+  const measurements = [];
+  for (const html of [source, target]) {
+    const page = await browser.newPage({ viewport: { width: 1024, height: 600 } });
+    await page.setContent(html);
+    measurements.push(await page.evaluate(() => [...document.querySelectorAll('li')].map(item => {
+      const box = item.getBoundingClientRect();
+      return [Math.round(box.width), Math.round(item.querySelector('button').getBoundingClientRect().x - box.x)];
+    })));
+    await page.close();
+  }
+  console.log(JSON.stringify({ source: measurements[0], converted: measurements[1] }));
+  assert.deepEqual(measurements[1], measurements[0]);
+} finally {
+  await browser.close();
+}