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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]OK, after searching a bit I found a couple posts on aligning something to the right using margins. But what if you just want to center some text? Do you just use "text-align: center?"[/quote] If you're just dealing with text inside a block level element (such as a paragraph or div), the text-align attribute will work fine. If you want to actually center the block level element itself, you set its width, and then use margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; make sure that (a) the page has a valid doctype, and (b) the element containing the element you're centering spans the entire width of the page. [quote]What about the target attribute? Does that have to be done with JS now?[/quote] I think it's coming back in XHTML 2. In the meantime, yeah, use a JS onclick attribute, if you're using XHTML. [quote]Seems the point of web standards was to make things easier on designers. This doesn't seem much easier to me...[/quote] I know what you mean. Keep in mind that the majority of the difficulties come from poor browser implementations; the standards themselves are actually pretty good and getting better. The theory behind it is also very good - separation of content from style and all that. But there's no doubt that sometimes you just have to use a table or two. [edit: and using tables, I should add, doesn't make a web page non-standard. In fact, you could probably make a primarily table-based design and still have a standards-compliant page. The difficulty you're experiencing comes from making a full-CSS design, not just the usage of standards.] [This message has been edited by Slime (edited 08-25-2003).] Loading...
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