Text Alignment

You can set the alignment of any HTML element using the text-align style rule. text-align can be used to set the alignment for a paragraph, a section of the document, or even the whole document. text-align can be used to set alignment to left, right, center, or justified.

For example, suppose we want to center a paragraph. First, we'll create a styles class called centeralign by putting the following code into the <HEAD> section of the document:

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--
.centeralign {text-align:center}
-->
</STYLE>

Now we can set any paragraph to centeralign class like this:

<P CLASS="centeralign">
Get Centered
</P>

which gives us

Get Centered

We can apply the same class to a <DIV ...> element to center a section of the page:

<DIV CLASS="centeralign">

This is a center aligned bunch of text

<P>

It stays center aligned because it is within 
a DIV which has a center aligned style. 

<P>

Each element within the center aligned DIV 
inherits the center aligned style.

</DIV>

which gives us

This is a center aligned bunch of text

It stays center aligned because it is within a DIV which has a center aligned style.

Each element within the center aligned DIV inherits the center aligned style.