Best way to center text block on Page?

ajava

If you look at this page on my site: http://ajava.smugmug.com/Venues
...you'll see that the text block is not centered on the page. That bugs me.

I found out that the best solution would be to use an HTML block, instead of a Text block.

Does anybody know what that kind of list structure is called in HTML, so that I can look it up and code it to look that way? I tried using a table, but the results were not what I expected. And the coding was very tedious.

Is there a better way to accomplish this?

Allen

ajava wrote: »

If you look at this page on my site: http://ajava.smugmug.com/Venues
...you'll see that the text block is not centered on the page. That bugs me.

I found out that the best solution would be to use an HTML block, instead of a Text block.

Does anybody know what that kind of list structure is called in HTML, so that I can look it up and code it to look that way? I tried using a table, but the results were not what I expected. And the coding was very tedious.

Is there a better way to accomplish this?

This should center that block. It's that widget specific so can be put in any level CSS block but I'd
recommend putting it in a page specific CSS block.

.sm-page-widget-4178771
.sm-page-widget-body {
   width:560px ;
   margin:0 auto !important;
}

denisegoldberg

Andrea -
I just took a look at your site - your work (and your site) is beautiful.

Just a heads up... I noticed that you have Originals enabled on your galleries. That means that anyone who wants to can download your images for free. I don't know if that's what you intended - if it's not you should choose anything other than Original as the largest display image size. (The Originals will always be used for printing.)

You might be interested in the first post of the thread ORIGINALS = a gateway to free photos, & right click protection is NOT PROTECTION.

--- Denise

ajava

Denise - thank you so much for your kind words. I will look into your suggestions because NO, I do not want to allow downloads of originals. Thank you!!

ajava

Allen wrote: »

This should center that block. It's that widget specific so can be put in any level CSS block but I'd
recommend putting it in a page specific CSS block.

.sm-page-widget-4178771
.sm-page-widget-body {
   width:560px ;
   margin:0 auto !important;
}

Where should I put that code, exactly? Do you mean I keep the text block as-is, and that code somehow centers things? Thanks!!

Allen

ajava wrote: »

Where should I put that code, exactly? Do you mean I keep the text block as-is, and that code somehow centers things? Thanks!!

Make the page "Just this ..." and add a CSS block on it.
Or highlight "entire site" and add it to that CSS block.

Nothing changes in your text block.

Might want to add a comment to the CSS so you know where it's used.
/* Venues page */

ChancyRat

It it turns out that you want the text centered but still left-justified, I think you can achieve that by setting the margins of the content block. The triangle on the upper left corner of the block to set them.

I tried the code offered above and it centered all the lines of text. You would not need this code in the CSS if all you need to do is set the margins of the content block