Re: centering text in html

From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
Cc: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: centering text in html
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:41:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB41114.5030709@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CB34322.7040608@christianmoe.com>

Hi again, Vinh,

More to the point, why don't you just use

#+BEGIN_CENTER
{ [[file:index.org][Home]] | [[file:files.org][Announcements and Files]] }
#+END_CENTER

See info:org:Paragraphs.

Cheers,
CM

On 10/11/10 7:02 PM, Christian Moe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Of the two non-working examples, one is due to what I think is
> slightly buggy behavior by Org where =#+HTML:= lines are followed
> immediately by a line of text. The other should work fine.
>
> * With =<p>= and inline CSS
>
> #+HTML: <p style="text-align: center;">
> { [[file:index.org][Home]] | [[file:files.org][Announcements and
> Files]] }
> #+HTML: </p>
>
> doesn't work because it results in
>
> #+begin_src html
> <p style="text-align: center;">
> <p>
> { <a href="index.html">Home</a> | <a href="files.html">Announcements
> and Files</a> }
> </p>
>
> </p></div>
> #+end_src
>
> A new =<p>...</p>= is added at the line breaks. A =<p>= element isn't
> supposed to contain another =<p>= element, so it won't work.
>
> I think this is undesirable, perhaps a bug; only text blocks delimited
> by blank lines should be considered paragraphs and exported as =<p>=.
>
> * With =<div>= and class
>
> #+HTML: <DIV CLASS="centeralign">
> { [[file:index.org][Home]] | [[file:files.org][Announcements and
> Files]] }
> #+HTML: </div>
>
> This should work, supposing you write CSS for it, e.g. by adding this
> to your header:
>
> : #+STYLE: <style>.centeralign {text-align: center}</style>
>
> There is no =centeralign= class in the default stylesheet, so you
> can't expect it to work out of the box.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 10/11/10 5:21 PM, Vinh Nguyen wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Carsten Dominik
>> <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> You give us *very* little to chew on.
>>
>> Sorry about this. I meant to elicit on what folks do when they want
>> to center text I general. I should've known better to put down what
>> I've tried. I just got it working but will also put down what I tried
>> to let others know what did not work.
>>
>>> How about:
>>>
>>> - what have you tried?
>>
>> #+HTML:<p style="text-align: center;">
>> { [[file:index.org][Home]] | [[file:files.org][Announcements and
>> Files]] }
>> #+HTML:</p>
>>
>> and
>>
>> #+HTML:<DIV CLASS="centeralign">
>> { [[file:index.org][Home]] | [[file:files.org][Announcements and
>> Files]] }
>> #+HTML:</div>
>>
>>
>>> - an example HTML code that would do the right thing
>>>
>>
>> THIS WORKED:
>> #+HTML:<div align=center>
>> { [[file:index.org][Home]] | [[file:files.org][Announcements and
>> Files]] }
>> #+HTML:</div>
>>
>>
>>> etc etc etc. If you want people to help you solve a problem,
>>> please do your part by giving them *as much as possible* information.
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>
>> -- Vinh
>>
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