Justifying text in Dreamweaver

PJ Hunt

OK, this post probly makes me look like a complete eegit. But I'm stumped if I can see the answer. Pretty simple, have some text in a cell and want to justify it, so it doesnt look gammy.

But try as I might it just wont do it.

I've tried doing it in word fist with the same setup, and cutting and pasteing but that just goes bonkers....

Any help appreciated.

Using Dreamweaver 3

Thanks

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dahamsta

There's no option in DW for justified text. You have to either do it manually - add "align=justify" to the block you want justified - or add a style to the block.

PJ Hunt

Thanks dude,

That did the trick nicely. Any idea why the html editors don't give this option?

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dahamsta

"justify" isn't - or wasn't - very widely supported, and when it was it was flaky. So they didn't bother with it. It's better handled in CSS2 though.

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by PJ Hunt:
Thanks dude,

That did the trick nicely. Any idea why the html editors don't give this option?

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It's generally seen as not a very useful option, and by Quality Admin people as not particularly desirable as it's "not easy to read".

Saying that, I'd say it being left out is more of an oversight than anything else. It's a bog-standard feature of bog-standard HTML, and it -should- be in WYSIWYG editors.

I was actually quite surprised that DW3 didn't have it. Went into my copy of it and searched around, sure that I'd be able to prove dahamsta wrong, as it IS an excellent program, and one I'd recommend above FrontPage ANY time. I wonder if it's in DW4... (which I want!!!)

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topgold

I use a style attributed to a blockquote and the justification appears to behave the best across the browsers.

Illkillya

justified alignment 0wnz when you have a lot of text