text-align

Text Centering Problem Using CSS with IE

I'm working on a site, and am having trouble getting text within a table to appear centered in IE. Firefox 2, 3 and Safari all work fine, but for some reason, the text won't appear centered in IE 6 or 7. I'm using: h2{font:300 12px "Helvetica", serif; text-align:center; text-transform:uppercase;}. I've also tried adding margin-left:...

Align contents inside a div

I use css style text-align to align contents inside a container in HTML. This works fine while the content is text or the browser is IE. But otherwise it does not work. Also as the name suggests it is used basically to align text. The align property has been deprecated long back. Is there any other way to align contents in html? ...

text-align syntax for sifr?

I'm having trouble finding usage/syntax for the text-align feature of sifr. This feature goes inside the flashvars parameter correct? So would it be something like: sIFR.replace(fontname, { selector: 'h1', wmode: 'transparent', flashvars: 'textalign=center' }); I tried the above with no luck using r436 build. ...

How to dynamically add a style for text-align using jQuery

I'm trying to correct the usual IE bugs around CSS 2.1 and need a way to alter an elements style properties to add a custom text-align style. Currently in jQuery you can do something like $(this).width( or $(this).height( but I can't seem to find a good way to alter the text-align w/ this same approach. The item already has a class ...

Jquery Flexigrid text-align

Hi Im using simple solution (example 1) of Flexigrid http://www.flexigrid.info/ What I'm trying to do is to align text in one of the columns to the right. Is there a way to do this without connecting to a JSON file (example 3)? ...

Gridview - align centre the tag 'EmptyDataText' & so it's not default left of page

Hi, I have a gridview control in my c# program. Basically someone enters an email address and the data is then shown in the gridview but if no data could be found with the email address, a message is displayed using the EmptyDataText="no data available" tag but I cannot seem to style the text 'no data available' so it appears in the cen...

Text div not justifying in Safari & Google Chrome

Hi, all. I was wondering if someone could help me figure out why the particular paragraph is not following the style: text-align: justify; It works fine when I preview it on Komodo, but when I preview it on Safari and Google Chrome, it seems like the text is aligned left instead of justified. Here's my code - HTML: <div id...

IE7 text-align not working

Hi Guys, I have a simple horizontal UL LI main nav which I am trying to align to the center of the page. Text-align, which works in the other browsers is working but this does not work in IE7. Is there something I am missing about this bug in IE7? Thanks! ...

Text overflow behaviour in CSS with non-left values for text-align

Given the following HTML: <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore</p> And the following CSS: p { border: 1px solid red; width: 200px; text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; } What would the expected rendering be? I was expecting the text to butt up against the right h...

What is the correct usage of 'align' vs 'text-align'

I am trying to figure out the difference between putting an align attribute on a table cell vs using text-align css attribute. The code below shows different results in IE vs Others. In IE, the align ends up aligning every sub child, so the text 'test' is centered aligned, while in FF/Webkit this is not the case and it remains left align...