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From: coltrane on 15 Jun 2010 10:05 is there a way to have text centered and justified?
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 15 Jun 2010 10:11 coltrane wrote: > is there a way to have text centered and justified? Yes. PointedEars -- Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee
From: coltrane on 15 Jun 2010 10:15 On 6/15/2010 10:11 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > coltrane wrote: > >> is there a way to have text centered and justified? > > Yes. > > > PointedEars Okay, I guess the question should have been how can I specify both center and justify text?
From: Evertjan. on 15 Jun 2010 10:24 coltrane wrote on 15 jun 2010 in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets: > On 6/15/2010 10:11 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> coltrane wrote: >> >>> is there a way to have text centered and justified? [please do not quote signatures on usenet] > Okay, I guess the question should have been how can I specify both > center and justify text? Justified text is always centered [in it's container], unless you maltreat it with uneven padding. Centering the container is another easy matter. -- Evertjan. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
From: Andy Dingley on 15 Jun 2010 10:25
On 15 June, 15:05, coltrane <tendenga...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > is there a way to have text centered and justified? Strictly speaking, centred and justified text are two different options for the same property, so no of course you can't. OTOH, justified text is mostly (except a short last line) symmetrical anyway, so what's the problem? I suspect that you mean text that's centred for both the text alignment (i.e. justification) and also its placement as a text block on the page (i.e. margins). With HTML 3.2, these were both controlled simultaneously by the align attribute. With HTML 4+CSS, they're controlled independently by two sets of CSS properties: text-align (which lays out the inline text within the box: left, right, centred or justified) and also the use of left & right margins to place the text block's box on the page canvas (set margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; ). Once you realise that these settings are now separate and you need to set two things, then the rest is just a bit of web searching. It's not entirely trivial, as there's a bit of old browser hacking to deal with the laggards: http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/center1.html |