Center Alignment

[Barnum]

Okay, this should be an easy one, but one I cannot see or fix. The following is a page from my site that has links centered on the page. Under General Treasure Hunting the centering takes a detour. I have looked and looked at it, and simply cannot figure out where it went wrong. It was fine until I added a site at the end.

http://www.stoutstandards.com/Link.html

[ralph.m]

I feel a little sorry for you posting this question, as you are in danger of some pretty harsh comments from HTML/CSS purists! But I think you know to expect that.

In other words, that's not great coding. Anyhow, you'll notice at a certain point that you go from having an opening and closing <center> element to only having a closing one.

<h1><a href="http://danhughes.libsyn.com/"><center><font color="black">Dan Hughes on Metal Detecting</center></a>
<h1><a href="http://www.refugeearth.org/BoydZoo/career/CarsonEnt/CarsonEnterprises.html">Glenn Carson Enterprises</center></a>

Adding in the missing opening <center> tags may help (I'm not sure, though).

However … here are a few pointers:
- only use one H1 per page, so perhaps use H2s if you want to stick with headings, or ideally, use <p>s that are styled to suit.
- instead of all that <center> stuff, just use one simple CSS rule:

p {text-align: center}

Much nicer!

And you can also add a color

p {text-align: center; color: black;}

A lot nicer than all that redundant and outdated <font> stuff, I'm sure you will agree.

[Barnum]

Ralph, thank you. Was looking for my problem where the centering stopped, not above. Not sure if it's my old age or stupidty....

I do understand your remarks about using <p> and the one indication of centering. Will be making that change within a day or so. I am somewhere in-between having fun with a website, and actually learning to do it right. Believe it or not I do learn something new each time I visit here (despite
the bashing).

Appreciate you all...

[AtSea webdesign]

Barnum, don't sweat it and take the bashing as people with no relations type skills.

Take this as a complement. For someone your age to be doing web design and the willingness to learn and improve is enough for me to tip my hat to you.

AFAIC if you take the time to improve on your processes there is no need for bashing. A lot of us with decades of experience could bash all of the newbies here. But we choose to educate rather than offer nothing at all.

[Barnum]

Thanks, appreciate your kind words and for taking the time to respond....