Maddog's HTML for Real People Chapter 2, Lesson 9

[INDEX] Ch 2, L 9 - Centering Text and Stuff

If you already know how to center text in a web page, you can skip this lesson.

Centering is one of the easiest ways to make your web page look better. (just try saying "OMMMMmmmm" for about 30 minutes; you'll be more centered, and eveything will look better...). The HTML tag pair < ;CENTER> </CENTER> does this for us. Everything between the opening tag <CENTER> and the closing tag </CENTER> gets centered on the receiving browser's screen. Let's see it work:

HTML Source Code Follows: 



Hello! Some words of wisdom follow:
<P>
<CENTER>
<H2>Wise Thoughts</H2>
<I><H4>The wise man does not try to get a sun tan on a rainy day;<BR>
but tries instead to think wise thoughts at home all day</H4></I>
</CENTER>
(from the I Ching, progressive translation)<BR>
(End of HTML Source Code)

Demonstration Follows:

Hello! Some words of wisdom follow:

Wise Thoughts

The wise man does not try to get a sun tan on a rainy day
but tries instead to think deep thoughts at home all day

(from the I Ching, progressive translation)

(Demonstartion Ends)

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Neato, huh? No matter how narrow or wide the screen is on the faraway browser, the material between the tags will be perfectly centered. (we'll be on the web "Top 5%" list in no time, now...)
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