Problem centering text within a Tools/CMS/Contact Us page ??

[gray]

I seem unable to centre just a few lines of text. Using the html editor, it centres all of the text. But in hard html coding

it not only does not like it, but it also deletes the html code.

[rocky]

The <center> tag has been deprecated and shouldn't be used any more, so it is automatically stripped to maintain standards compliance. Use the following instead:

Your text

[gray]

Yes that works, but the text editor and the text alignment button does not work. You have to manually enter the style code.

Many thanks.

[rocky]

That's strange. I can't reproduce your problem.

I created a page, entered some left-aligned text, then saved it. The text appeared left-aligned. I then edited the page and clicked the "Align center" button on the toolbar. The text appeared centred in the preview and on the webpage.

When I click on the HTML view, it automatically entered the code I mentioned above for me. I didn't have to type it manually. Does this not work for you?

Can you give us the code you are trying to edit?

[gray]

Here's a screenshot of the working html/text

screenshot1

If I say now highlight a bit of text

screenshot2

and then select the centre button, this is what I now get

screenshot3

If however I highlight the same text and select bold, I now get

screenshot4

So the text editor nearly works, but not quite right.

[rocky]

I think I understand now.

The only way I've been able to reproduce this problem is by using Shift+ENTER twice instead of ENTER to separate paragraphs. When clicking the Align Center button, this then causes both paragraphs to be centred, which to me is expected behaviour. You should only use one ENTER between paragraphs to create two separate

tags instead of

 

and then you will get the bahaviour you expect.

If you are pasting this text from Word or somewhere else, you will need to make sure that you are not using Shift+ENTER between paragraphs, or if this can't be avoided, I guess you will have to manually delete the spaces between each paragraph and then press ENTER to put the right tags in.

As far as I can tell, it is impossible to fix this, since it is impossible to know what the intent of the user was when separating paragraphs.

[rocky]

Oops, forgot to preview. I mean two separate

tags instead of

.