Simple HTML question

civis_liberalis

I'm not in any way proficient in HTML. I have very little knowledge of it.

Basically, I want to centre some text.

They happen to be football results.

Basically...

Team A v Team B
Team C v Team D

I would like to have the lines of text centred to the scoreline. For example... below is the undesirable result I am getting.

Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea
Wigan 1-1 West Bromwich Albion
Liverpool 1-1 West Ham United

What I would like to achieve is that all the score lines line up in the centre, like this...

Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea
            Wigan 1-1 West Bromwich Albion
        Liverpool 1-1 West Ham United

Any suggestions? I just make a table but it isn't suited to what I'm doing.

yoyo

civis_liberalis wrote: »

I'm not in any way proficient in HTML. I have very little knowledge of it.

Basically, I want to centre some text.

They happen to be football results.

Basically...

Team A v Team B
Team C v Team D

I would like to have the lines of text centred to the scoreline. For example... below is the undesirable result I am getting.

Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea
Wigan 1-1 West Bromwich Albion
Liverpool 1-1 West Ham United

What I would like to achieve is that all the score lines line up in the centre, like this...

Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea
            Wigan 1-1 West Bromwich Albion
        Liverpool 1-1 West Ham United

Any suggestions? I just make a table but it isn't suited to what I'm doing.

<table align="center" border="0">
<tr><td align="right">Manchester United</td> <td>1-1</td> <td>Chelsea</td></tr>
<tr>
      <td align="right">      Wigan</td> <td> 1-1</td> <td>West Bromwich Albion</td></tr>
<tr>
      <td align="right">  Liverpool</td> <td>1-1</td> <td>West Ham United</td></tr>
</table>

Using tables it possibly the best way

Nick

civis_liberalis

Thanks Nick.

You see, the problem I had with using a tables was that it inexplicably moves itself down the page. I would much prefer that you wouldn't have to scroll down.

Whenever I enter any plain text or images, basically anything else at all... I don't have this problem. It sits exactly where I want it to, just below the heading.

I have no idea why this occurs...?

civis_liberalis

I figured out why the blog page I am writing the html for pushes the table down the page.

If you delete all the empty spaces within the code and have it in one big mess of a line of code, it sits where you want it to be... Go figure!

Liam Byrne

Could be that the blog software does an "nl2br".

civis_liberalis

The workaround I have for it now, while a bit clumsy, does the job better. Thanks for the suggestions.