[HTML] Centering text

**Gouki** · April 11, 2006

The text that I want centered is an ASCII art. So I had to use <pre> </pre> so it could look good.

Using <h1 style="text-align: center;"> and <div style="text-align: center;"> does not work, because the ASCII art gets all messed up.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

EDIT: Using .CSS

**tarquel** · April 12, 2006

Use CSS bud ;)

EDIT:

Ahhhh....

um...good question then.....

Anyone else? lol

Nath.

Edited April 12, 2006 by tarquel

**Gouki** · April 12, 2006

LOLOL. You had me refreshing the page like a mad man for that?! j/k

Take care buddy!

**gunsmokingman** · April 12, 2006

Try this

<HTML><Head>
<Body><Table Align="Center"><TD>Here is some text in the center</TD></Table>

**Gouki** · April 12, 2006

Thanks for the tip, it did worked, a little bit ... LOL

The ASCII art moved a little bit to the right, it did not get centered tho.

This is what I have now:

...
<Table Align="Center"><TD>

	   <pre>
<b>
  ________			  __	__  ___ ___ ________   
 /  _____/  ____  __ __|  | _|__|/   |   \\_____  \  
/   \  ___ /  _ \|  |  \  |/ /  /	~	\/  / \  \	  ___ ___ ___
\	\_\  (  <_> )  |  /	<|  \	Y	/   \_/.  \  _ | . |  _| . |
 \______  /\____/|____/|__|_ \__|\___|_  /\_____\ \_/ |_||___|_| |_  |		
		\/				  \/		 \/		\__>			|___|										  
</b>			   
	   </pre>

</TD></Table>
...

**gunsmokingman** · April 12, 2006

I got it to center but what you want to display did not look good

<HTML><Head><Body>

<Table><TD Align="Center"><pre><b>

  ________			  __	__  ___ ___ ________   
/  _____/  ____  __ __|  | _|__|/   |   \\_____  \  
/   \  ___ /  _ \|  |  \  |/ /  /	~	\/  / \  \	  ___ ___ ___
\	\_\  (  <_> )  |  /	<|  \	Y	/   \_/.  \  _ | . |  _| . |
\______  /\____/|____/|__|_ \__|\___|_  /\_____\ \_/ |_||___|_| |_  |		
		\/				  \/		 \/		\__>			|___|										  
</b></pre></TD></Table>

**Gouki** · April 12, 2006

That's the problem. I also got it centered, but because I need everything pre-formatted it will not look good.

I need a way of centering and still use the PRE tags.

**tarquel** · April 12, 2006

sheesh - its even more complex than what I thought you had meant lol

there may be a way, but i think your best bet is to make a very basic .gif of:

________			  __	__  ___ ___ ________   
/  _____/  ____  __ __|  | _|__|/   |   \\_____  \  
/   \  ___ /  _ \|  |  \  |/ /  /	~	\/  / \  \	  ___ ___ ___
\	\_\  (  <_> )  |  /	<|  \	Y	/   \_/.  \  _ | . |  _| . |
\______  /\____/|____/|__|_ \__|\___|_  /\_____\ \_/ |_||___|_| |_  |		
		\/				  \/		 \/		\__>			|___|

and use that with tables and / or layers.

Cheers

Nath

**Gouki** · April 12, 2006

That's an idea. I would prefer not to, however, if there is not way of having it centered, I'll do it.

**EchoNoise** · April 12, 2006

**Disregard**

Edited April 12, 2006 by undeadsoldier

**Bas** · April 13, 2006

Try this

<Table Align="Center"><TD>

	   <pre>
<b>
  ________			  __	__  ___ ___ ________  
/  _____/  ____  __ __|  | _|__|/   |   \\_____  \  
/   \  ___ /  _ \|  |  \  |/ /  /	~	\/  / \  \	  ___ ___ ___
\	\_\  (  <_> )  |  /	<|  \	Y	/   \_/.  \  _ | . |  _| . |
\______  /\____/|____/|__|_ \__|\___|_  /\_____\ \_/ |_||___|_| |_  |
		\/				  \/		 \/		\__>			|___|
</b>			  
	   </pre>

</TD></Table>

It looks the same but it's not.

Your code is good but you have some spaces at the right side of your text. I deleted spaces.

Edited April 13, 2006 by Bas

**Gouki** · April 13, 2006

Great. It worked. Thanks allot buddy. Just need a way to center it vertically now

**tarquel** · April 15, 2006

lmao I thought that *was* the problem lol

Horrizontally shouldnt have been a prob dude lol ;)

Cheers

Nath

**Gouki** · April 16, 2006

Heheh. Sorry Now the big problem is on ... verticly.

**Dumpy Dooby** · April 16, 2006

valign="middle"

Also, make sure you set the font-family to a set of monospaced fonts.

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