Re: Centering and Justifying

by "Keith D Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>

 Date:  Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:04:00 -0500
 To:  "David Burlingame" <drbexe(at)tampabay.rr.com>,
<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
 References:  DavidBurlingame
  todo: View Thread, Original
How about:
<.div align="justify"><.table width="80%" align="center"><.tr><td>

HTH,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com
"Making the Internet Easy"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Burlingame" <drbexe(at)tampabay.rr.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 6:54 PM
Subject: Centering and Justifying


> Hi.
>
> First of all, I'm a firm believer in validating.
>
> That said, I'd like to find a way to have a paragraph that is centered on
a
> page, only takes up about 80% width wise, and the words in the paragraph
> itself to be "justified".
>
> I've tried all the following: (without the dots!)
>
> <.div align="center"><.table width="80%"><.tr align="justify"><td>
>
> This doesn't work; it centers the table and the words in the paragraph.
>
> <.div align="justify"><.table width="80%"><.tr><td>
>
> This justifies the paragraph, but it is not centered on the page.
>
> <.div align="justify" width="80%"><.table><.tr><td>
>
> This doesn't work; I don't think "width" works in the "div" tag.
>
> I've tried a few other ways, but I can't make it work.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to do this, and still make it w3c valid?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Dave Burlingame
> http://www.drbexe.com/
>
>
>
>

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