OT: HTML help for beginner

jonny_trousers

I've successfully used this community for help with non-bike related issues many times in the past and I could do with some help again now.

I'm in the process of teaching myself how to format documents for eBooks and I've hit a wall. I've been going through the processes set out in the book I'm following and all was good until I tried instructing the style sheet to centre paragraphs at times. I've twiddled with the code I was told to input, but I still can't get it to centre the three asterisks as in the screenshot from my text editor below.

Any help offered would be massively appreciated.

Cheers

UndercoverElephant

May be easier if you post it in a code box, so that it can be copied and pasted.

jonny_trousers

Ha! I'll see what I can do, but not only do I not know what a code box is, but because Bikeradar will no longer acknowledge that I have logged in (despite logging in) on my Mac, I'm having to do all my submitting here via my iPhone.

nicklouse

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

Ha! I'll see what I can do, but not only do I not know what a code box is, but because Bikeradar will no longer acknowledge that I have logged in (despite logging in) on my Mac, I'm having to do all my submitting here via my iPhone.

cant see that you have mentioned this anywhere so the devs can maybe see what the issue is.

viewtopic.php?f=40033&t=13006375

dhope

nicklouse wrote:

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

Ha! I'll see what I can do, but not only do I not know what a code box is, but because Bikeradar will no longer acknowledge that I have logged in (despite logging in) on my Mac, I'm having to do all my submitting here via my iPhone.

cant see that you have mentioned this anywhere so the devs can maybe see what the issue is.

viewtopic.php?f=40033&t=13006375

If nothing else they can probably help with the HTML query

jonny_trousers

nicklouse wrote:

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

Ha! I'll see what I can do, but not only do I not know what a code box is, but because Bikeradar will no longer acknowledge that I have logged in (despite logging in) on my Mac, I'm having to do all my submitting here via my iPhone.

cant see that you have mentioned this anywhere so the devs can maybe see what the issue is.

viewtopic.php?f=40033&t=13006375

Cheers. I'll log it.

Pufftmw

You're at least 1 } short it looks? Above P Centered?

I'm not a coder btw

jonny_trousers

Pufftmw wrote:

You're at least 1 } short it looks? Above P Centered?

I'm not a coder btw

Thanks. That one looks pretty obvious now you mention it. It could be a result of my tinkering and not a problem solver, but I'll give it a shot when I get home. Thanks for your help.

ic.

You've not ended the bracket for the p definition. You need } below where you've declared your font-family

Going about it the long way though. Could have just done <p align="center">My Text</p>

Also, the inner span tag isn't required

Happy to help with any other Qs!

jonny_trousers

IC. wrote:

You've not ended the bracket for the p definition. You need } below where you've declared your font-family

Going about it the long way though. Could have just done <p align="center">My Text</p>

Also, the inner span tag isn't required

Happy to help with any other Qs!

Thanks IC! Much appreciated!

seajays

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

IC. wrote:

You've not ended the bracket for the p definition. You need } below where you've declared your font-family

Going about it the long way though. Could have just done <p align="center">My Text</p>

Also, the inner span tag isn't required

Happy to help with any other Qs!

Thanks IC! Much appreciated!

<p align="center"> is deprecated in HTML 4.01, and not valid in HTML5... you should use the CSS for centring as in your original code. The problem was the missing closing bracket on the first "p" definition, and as Jonny says you don't need the inner span tag either.