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CSS - Centering Left-justified Text
How do I create centered left-justified text? I want it to look something like this:
+---------------SUPPOSE THIS IS MY PAGE---------------+ This paragraph is centered with respect to the page, but note that the text is wrapped around and left-justified within the paragraph. +-----------------------------------------------------+ Can I achieve that with CSS without using tables and manipulating cell widths and cell alignments? . Similar TutorialsSounds weird, but you know us designers are always looking for fresh ways to present content. I've not actually managed to make this work, even though it seems ridiculously simple; in effect it would just be full justification except any orphaned lines would be right-justified, not left. Any ideas? Hello, In my menu, I'm trying to center the first level of the List Items, and left justify the second level of the List Items. So the Menu will be centered and the pop-up links will be left justified. I know it's probably super simple, but for some reason, I'm missing it! Quote: /*!!!!!!!!!!! Menu Core CSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!*/ .qmmc .qmdivider{display:block;font-size:1px;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;position:relative;z-index:10000;} .qmmc .qmdividery{float:left;width:0px;} .qmmc .qmtitle{display:block;cursor:default;white-space:nowrap;position:relative;z-index:10000;} .qmclear {font-size:1px;height:0px;width:0px;clear:left;line-height:0px;display:block;float:none !important;} .qmmc {position:relative;zoom:1;z-index:10000;} .qmmc a, .qmmc li {float:left;display:block;white-space:nowrap;position:relative;z-index:10000;} .qmmc div a, .qmmc ul a, .qmmc ul li {float:none;} .qmsh div a {float:left;} .qmmc div{visibility:hidden;position:absolute;} .qmmc .qmcbox{cursor:default;display:block;position:relative;z-index:10000;} .qmmc .qmcbox a{display:inline;} .qmmc .qmcbox div{float:none;position:static;visibility:inherit;left:auto;} .qmmc li {z-index:10000;} .qmmc ul {left:-10000px;position:absolute;z-index:10000;} .qmmc, .qmmc ul {list-style:none;padding:0px;margin:0px;} .qmmc li a {float:none} .qmmc li:hover>ul{left:auto;}#qm0 ul {top:100%;}#qm0 ul li:hover>ul{top:0px;left:100%;} Hello. I created my own rounded corners fluid site from scratch using CSS and images in the same way you would do it with a table, using the 3x3 format (topleft, topcenter, topright, midleft, midcenter, midright, botleft, botcenter, botright). The problem: The top section works great, but its the middle right section that doesnt justify properly. What you see: For the left and right middle, I have a background repeat on the y-axis. The left background is fine, as well as the middle, but a div inside the middle center is pushing right background to an area below (as shown in this image). http://clients.activemd.net/images/css-problem-screen1.jpg You will notice theres only whitespace on the right, and the background I'm trying to repeat is below it on the right. Heres my CSS: Code: /* CSS Document */ body { margin: 20px auto; /* Had to add margin-top 20px to topleft and top right corners to compensate. */ font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; } #main { margin: 20px auto; width: 100%; height: 100%; z-index: 0; } .clear { clear: both; } h1 { margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; } ul { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } /* Top Layout */ #top { height: 146px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } #top_left { margin-top: 20px; background: url(../images/top-left-bg.png) no-repeat; height: 146px; width: 30px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; } #top_right { margin-top: 20px; background: url(../images/top-right-bg.png) no-repeat; height: 146px; width: 30px; position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; } #top_center { margin: 0px 30px; } #top_center_bg { background: url(../images/top-mid-bg.png) repeat-x; width: 100%; height: 30px; } #top_center_bar { background: url(../images/top-mid-bar-bg.png) repeat-x; width: 100%; height: 90px; } /* Middle Layout */ #middle { min-height: 500px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } #middle_left { background: url(../images/middle-left-bg.png) repeat-y; height: 100%; width: 30px; position: absolute; left: 0px; } #middle_right { background: url(../images/middle-right-bg.png) repeat-y; height: 100%; width: 30px; position: absolute; right: 0px; } #middle_center { min-height: 100px; } /* Bottom Layout */ #bottom { background: #eee; min-height: 100px; } /* Left box Layout */ #left_box { width: 156px; position: absolute; left: 0px; min-height: 90px; z-index: 100; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } #left_box_top { background: url(../images/left-box-top.png) no-repeat; width: 156px; height: 30px; position: relative; top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } #left_box_mid { background: url(../images/left-box-mid.png) repeat-y; position: relative; right: 0px; height: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } #left_box_bottom { background: url(../images/left-box-bottom.png) no-repeat; width: 156px; height: 30px; position: relative; bottom: 0px; } #left_box_content { color: #FFF; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 5px; font-size: 0.8em; } #left_box_content a { color: #FFF; } /* Content Area Styling */ #report { height: 100%; min-height: 400px; border: 1px solid #999; margin-left: 160px; margin-right: 30px; } #report_data { float: left; width: 775px; height: 100%; max-height: 400px; overflow: scroll; border: 1px dotted #ccc; margin: 10px; min-height: 100px; } /* Login Info box */ #login_info { background: url(../images/login-bar-bg.png) repeat-x; position: absolute; top: 79px; left: 40px; border: 1px solid #FFF; min-width: 250px; height: 44px; line-height: 44px; color: #FFF; }
and here's the HTML of the site. Code: <body> <div id="main"> <div id="top"> <div id="top_left"></div> <div id="top_center"> <div id="top_center_bg"> <div id="login_info">Logged in as: ricktest <a href="http://clients.activemd.net?action=logout">Log Out</a></div> <div id="top_nav"> <ul class="tabContainer"> <li> <a href="#" class="blue"> <span class="left"></span> <span class="mid">Inquiries</span> <span class="right"></span> </a> </li> <li> <a href="#" class="blue">Engage <span class="left"></span> <span class="right"></span> </a> </li> <li> <a href="#" class="blue">Manage <span class="left"></span> <span class="right"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="sub_nav"><a href="javascript:getdata('#middle_center', 'main/index.php');">Home</a> | <a href="javascript:getdata('#middle_center', 'forms/index.php');">Forms</a> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div><div id="top_center_bar"></div></div> <div id="top_right"></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="middle"><!--Here begins the first layer of dynamic content --> <div id="middle_left"></div> <div id="middle_center"></div> <div id="middle_right"></div> </div><!--Here ends the first layer of dynamic content --> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="bottom"> <div id="bottom_left"></div> <div id="bottom_center">Bottom</div> <div id="bottom_right"></div> </div> </div> </body>
The site is dynamic PHP, so I cant just throw a link in here. I hope this is enough information. If anyone can help me with this, I would appreciate it. Thanks. Rick I'd like to be able to grab blocks of text from a plain-text file and present them in a web page, not only preserving the original spaces and line breaks, but also nicely and neatly justifying them (i.e. "full" justification). I tried setting the innerHTML of a div equal to the Ajax'ed responseText, formatted thusly: <div style="blah:blooey; ...;white-spacere-wrap; text-align:justify;">but no joy</div> The pre-wrap worked, but undid the justify. sorry if its lame but how do i keep my text/text block/para center in a DIV? code: .box { float:left; width:400px; height: 400px; } now i want the text/para to be exactly in the middle of the box(having same top, bottom space or margin/padding). the text shall be dynamicly generated by cms... I'm having a bit of mental block. How do I achieve the following: 100% width div LEFT SPAN (left aligned) | MIDDLE SPAN (centre aligned) | RIGHT SPAN (right aligned) I thought it was possible in one div rather than having to go the three column layout route? Confused yet? What's the best way to accomplish this? page testimonials.css Main.CSS If you look at the page, you will see that I have the "signature" of the testimonial giver aligned right, but I would like the two p elements to be aligned along their left edge as well (but on the right side of the page, with everything flowing around any images)... I tried floating them right, which and clearing the floats, but then the testimonials don't flow around the images... can this be done without getting divitis? How does one align the text to the left of a div? I have "text-align:left;" specified, however the text is centered when it is too narrow to fill the screen. The URL of the page in question is http://what-is-what.com . If you type an illegal character, such as "=", in the Ask box then the narrow text that is returned appears centered. Other narrow pages on the same site do the same, of course. Tested in Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Ubuntu. I have this header in my css. and i am trying to get the Text i put in there to position in the middle and left of the header. But nothing i do works. it even will not change size that i describe or color. here is the css for header and the text code. Code:
#topsection {
background: #EAEAEA url(images/png_logo.gif) no-repeat right center;
height: 90px;
}
span.htext {
font-color: #3300CC;
font-size: 30px;
text-decoration: none;
letter-spacing: 1px;
text-align: left middle;
}
anyone know how to fix this. Hello, I have a vertical menu on the left hand side of my page that I'm working on. I'm trying to center the text vertically in each box as some menu names take up two lines and are skewing the alignment. Here's the code I'm using for the menu: Code:
#menu {
clear: left;
float: left;
width: 150px;
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 0.9em;
}
#menu ul {
list-style: none;
width: 150px;
margin: 0 0 20px 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 10px;
}
#menu li {
margin-bottom: 4px; /* space between each menu item */
}
#menu li a { /* text */
font-weight: bold;
height: 25px; /* height of menu tabs */
text-decoration: none;
color: #505050;
display: block;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-top: 5px;
background: #f4f4f4;
border-left: 4px solid #cccccc;
}
#menu li a:hover {
background: #eaeaea;
color: #286ea0;
border-left: 4px solid #286ea0;
}
If anyone could help me out that'd be great. Thanks! hi, i'm wondering whether anyone here knows something that i don't about this... here's some code: Code: <div style="position:absolute; left:30px; top:90px; width:380px; height:80px; border: 3px double #000000; padding:10px; padding-top:5px; line-height:150%"> <table width="380" height="80" border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> <tr> <td valign="middle"> <div align="center" style="width:380px;"> <span style="font-size:11px; text-align:left;"> aligned to the left.<BR> but is it centered?<BR> i think not.<BR> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> i'm able to achieve vertically centered text in the table cell, and i can center it or align it to the left, but so far in my experimenting i haven't found a way to have text that is aligned to the left, centered in the div. i could always just add a bunch of padding-left on the div so that the text is pushed over and looks nicer although it is not centered, but i'm wondering whether there's a way to do it the way i originally planned to.. thanks very much for looking at this. I'm having cross-browser compatibility with my website. On the right hand side I want to have images on the right and text to its left. I've tried variations of html/css but one seems to work with one browser and then not with the other. In safari it looks fine right now. http://www.ryanbuckley.ca/photos/ Can anyone help with this little annoyance? Thanks in advance! Ryan i wish to have two bits of text show as described in subject this is the code i have at present. i know that i have used a style for an image but how do i do this for text ? thanks Code:
<style>
img.floatRight {
float: right;
margin: 15px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 3px;
}
</style>
left text here<b class="floatRight"> right text here</b>
Hi, I'm new to CSS and haven't been able to get this working. I have two layers, one for an image, and another for text that goes on top. The text is supposed to be centered and the image should be centered wrt the text. The problem is that sometimes a word in the text will be too long and there's overflow. When this happens, the image stays on the left and the text box gets larger. This way the image isn't right behind the center of the text. I tried using overflow: visible but this didn't change anything. Thanks for any help. There's probably a simple, obvious solution for this, but I'm having problems managing to get this to work. Here's the isse: I have a menu that basically looks like so: Home | Guestbook | Contact Us | Help I need to place an image beneath each menu item so that is centered directly below the text, to indicate which page the user is on (not my design; I don't want to hear about it). I can not use tables for this - the menu items are pulled out of a database, and are generated in a loop; I also can't use some sort of div that requires a set width for each menu item, due to the fact that the menu items are all of variable widths. Ideas? Hi guys I'm in the process of getting my site together, and it's coming along fairly well. I've been using Firefox for testing, and haven't noticed anything wrong. However, when I checked it in IE8, text that I have explicitly left-aligned is now sitting centred on my page. I have validated the code, and there are no problems. I'm just confused... Here is my code: Code: <span style="text-align:left;">Jarryd Pearson</span><br /><br />
<table align="left">
<tr class="rule">
<td colspan="2">
<hr />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="contact">
Phone:
</td>
<td class="contact">
####
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rule">
<td colspan="2">
<hr />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="contact">
Mobile:
</td>
<td class="contact">
####
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rule">
<td colspan="2">
<hr />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="contact">
Email:
</td>
<td class="contact">
####
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rule">
<td colspan="2">
<hr />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="contact">
Postal Address:
</td>
<td class="contact">
####
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rule">
<td colspan="2">
<hr />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
And here's my CSS: Code: @charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
body {
background: #0d1866;
color: #CCCCCC;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
}
a {
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:hover {
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
}
paypal {
border: none;
}
img.footer {
border: none;
width: 88px;
height: 31px
}
td.contact {
vertical-align:top;
}
tr.rule {
padding: 0px;
}
/* DIVS */
div#main {
padding: 2px;
margin: 2px;
}
div#text {
width: 650px;
height: 370px;
vertical-align: top;
overflow: auto;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
I apologise if this has been posted before. I did a search, and couldn't seem to find this particular issue. If someone has already posted this, please point me in their direction! Thanks Jarryd When i float my div to the left, i cant seem to get the text to align right, can someone show me a way out of this horriable predicament i have found my self in!! my navbar is a <ul> and i jsut added image icons. i have two problems, the placement and the vertical centering. placement: well, i guess its best to show you the code and what i had to do to get it in place. i used position:relative and then changed the bottom, but why is it so obscure??? Code: #navbar {
text-align:right;
background-image: url('images/menu_new.GIF');
background-repeat:repeat-x;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 12px;
padding-right: 8px;
margin-top:-12;
height:31;
}
#navbar ul {
margin-right: -0.3em;
height:31px;
position:relative;
bottom:-2px;
}
#navbar ul li {
display: inline;
list-style-type:none;
margin-left: 0.3em;
margin-right: 0.3em;
position:relative;
vertical-align:middle;
}
#navbar ul li a {
padding-top:11px;
color:#495B20;
background-color:#BAD36B;
border-left: 2px solid #fff;
border-top: 2px solid #fff;
border-right: 2px solid #000;
border-bottom: 2px solid #000;
}
#navbar ul li a:hover {
background-color:#495B20;
color:#BAD36B;
border-left: 2px solid #000;
border-top: 2px solid #000;
border-right: 2px solid #fff;
border-bottom: 2px solid #fff;
}
#navbar ul li div {
position:relative;
}
#navbar ul li img {
border:none;
width:24px;
height:24px;
padding-right:4px;
margin: 0;
}
vertical centering: i have looked at the tutorial, but i need serious help. i'm not trying it again, im missing something. can someone please show me how do do this? i want to center it like this... ....................................... . . . texttexttexttexttext. .image texttexttexttexttext. .----- texttexttexttexttext. . . ....................................... so both the image and text are centered but theyre floated left. actually, maybe they dont need to be floated cuz its just a word or two. look at the header for the best desc. i have tried this with my game box, and i'm clued out. i really hope sum1 can help me with this. http://www.viportals.com/ EDIT: DID IT ON MY OWN!!! THATS A FIRST!!! Code: #navbar {
text-align:center;
background-image: url('images/menu_new.GIF');
background-repeat:repeat-x;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 14px;
margin-top:-15px;
height:31px;
line-height:31px;
margin-left:0;
margin-right:0;
}
#navbar ul li {
display: inline;
list-style-type:none;
}
#navbar ul li a {
padding-left: 0.3em;
padding-right: 0.3em;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-bottom: 4px;
color:#495B20;
background-color:#BAD36B;
border-left: 2px solid #fff;
border-top: 2px solid #fff;
border-right: 2px solid #000;
border-bottom: 2px solid #000;
}
#navbar ul li a:hover {
background-color:#495B20;
color:#BAD36B;
border-left: 2px solid #000;
border-top: 2px solid #000;
border-right: 2px solid #fff;
border-bottom: 2px solid #fff;
}
#navbar ul li img {
border:none;
width:24px;
height:24px;
padding-right:4px;
vertical-align: middle;
}
now i have one QUESTION: how do i get all the buttons to align center?????????? they all stay to the right oh, and not a huge deal, but the text is a couple pixels down so it brings the image down too. how can i make the text in the vertical middle? the line-height thing only worked so well. Trying to achieve this: I'm having trouble figuring out how to float the right ad space correctly. This is what i've got so far: http://gatehouse.graffetto.com/floating_divs.html Code: Code: <html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.mainDiv {margin: 0; border: 1px solid black; padding: 10px; width: 600px; float: left;}
.image {height: 100px; width: 100px; background-color: red; float: left;}
.rightAd {float: right; background-color: blue; height: 250px; width: 300px; clear:right; margin-top: 300px;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="mainDiv">
<div class="image">test</div>
<div class="rightAd">test</div>
<div class="textDiv">
Text content
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I know this is simple i just can't figure it out for some reason.. thanks for any help. Hi. I'm reasonably new to tableless-design, and i've run into the common problem of aligning one bit of text to the left of a line and another to the right. I have searched the web and have found several means of achieving this, but in my case there is an image combined with a inline list (horizontal menu) that needs to be aligned left, and another combination of text and images to the right. | [image] text .... right-side text | This might seem rather simple, but it becomes more complicated: the entire block needs to be padded on the top in order for the text not to appear cramped up at the top, and the left-margin and right-margin of the image is then set to the corresponding negative values in order for it to still be displayed precisely in the top left corner. I have found this to be the only cross-browser compatible method. All the methods I have experimented with to align the two sides on left and right have either resulted in the image and text to be incorrectly (vertically) aligned or be displayed in different lines, even when the image is not used as part of the alignment-method. Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanx |
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