Is It Possible To Align Text To The Center And Justify It?

Dagoth Nereviar

Mar 5 2007, 12:11 AM

Basically, I have a list (like shown below) but as you can see, some parts stick out more than others, and it doesn't look ordered.

What I wish to know is if it's possible to justify the text so it's ordered, but also keep it in the centre, using CSS

Although if another coding language needs to be used, then that's ok

Example:

Beginning with A
Beginning with O
Beginning with V
Beginning with W
Beginning with I
Beginning with M
Beginning with P

(Random letters to show how I mean easier

without going through the whole alphabet)

Thanks to any who reply

BuffaloHELP

Mar 5 2007, 01:02 AM

What you mean by "ordered" as in it's not aligned with each other at all? This cannot be possible using just CSS or anything else because the character width of each letters, i.e. A, O, V, W, I, M and P.

The simplest way to resolve the alignment issue is to create LETTERS in graphics with all of them having the same width and height.

The method you should try is to align "Beginning with" and let LETTERS drift off

Beginning with A
Beginning with O
Beginning with V
Beginning with W
Beginning with I
Beginning with M
Beginning with P

And these would be enclosed within a DIV or TABLE and centered to a page...

The complicated way is to use CSS to set LETTERS as the same width with same space apart. But you may end up with 26 different cases to align them all in a line, not to mention they may not look all the same (some wider than others).

kraizii88z

Mar 5 2007, 02:15 AM

The only thing i could think of would be to justify a table and center it.

rvalkass

Mar 5 2007, 06:28 AM

I would put the entire list in a DIV, and set the text alignment within the DIV to justify. This will (obviously) justify the list. Then, if you set the left and right margins of the DIV to auto, then it will centre align the DIV within the parent element. This should give the look of a centre-aligned, justified list. I've tried it and it does work, although you have to fiddle around with the width of the DIV to get the look you want.

jlhaslip

Mar 5 2007, 07:19 AM

Is this any better?
Adjust the spacing by increasing the margin on the class.

CODE

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
	<title>An XHTML 1.0 Strict standard template</title>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type"  content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
  <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="./w3c_suggested.css" media="all" />

</head>
<style type="text/css">

.box  {
	 margin: 0;
	 padding: 0em;

	 }
.centre {
		margin: 0 2em;
		text-align: center;
		}
</style>


<body>

  <div class="box">
<p class="box" >Beginning<span class="centre">with</span>&nbsp;A</p>
<p class="box" >Beginning<span class="centre">with</span>&nbsp;C</p>
<p class="box" >Beginning<span class="centre">with</span>&nbsp;V</p>
<p class="box" >Beginning<span class="centre">with</span>W</p>
<p class="box" >Beginning<span class="centre">with</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;I</p>
<p class="box" >Beginning<span class="centre">with</span>&nbsp;M</p>
<p class="box" >Beginning<span class="centre">with</span>&nbsp;P</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

I placed a "non-breaking space" in the narrow glyphs and two in the "I". No adjustment to the 'W'. Might work?

Dagoth Nereviar

Mar 11 2007, 09:03 PM

Thank you for all the replies

My idea was to use a div, and then a table to align it, which looks like I will have to do.
I'll have to have the heading in a different div too, or else it won't work, right?

jlhaslip

Mar 11 2007, 11:38 PM

Just a reminder that tables do, in fact, have their uses, although it would appear that you are using the table in a structural way to format the data and that is not what tables are designed for. Using a table for this task is not "semantic" and alternatives should be considered.

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Is It Possible To Align Text To The Center And Justify It? - Example inside!

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