Elementary Standards HTML Tutorial
The tutorials found herein have been written for clarification of existing W3C HTML 5 and HTML 4.01 (and, by extension, xHTML 1.0 as text/html) specifications through the use of real-world examples.
align
The align attribute represents text alignment. It may be found assigned with the following: applet, caption, col, colgroup, div, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, iframe, img, input, legend, object, p, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr.
[Note: This presentation attribute has been deprecated in HTML 4.01 and obsoleted in HTML 5. CSS has supplanted this attribute with the property text-align.]
- Attribute name:
align- Value:
- top | bottom | left | center | right | justify | char
- Example [Basic (Paragraph)]:
- Values: [left | center | right | justify]
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Three Ravens were singing as sun rose.
- Code [HTML]:
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<p align="right">Three Ravens were singing as sun rose.</p>
- Example [Basic (Horizontal Rule)]:
- Values: [left | center | right]
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- Code [HTML]:
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<hr width="80px" size="130" noshade="noshade" align="center">
- Example [Basic (Heading/Paragraph)]:
- Values: [left | center | right | justify]
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Barnacles are indifferent when tides of change are set.
Circus sideshows offer an arcanum of locums' ex cathedra caveats given on the state of burlesque dancers performing in the Evening after general attendance was sent for the egress.
- Code [HTML]:
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<h1 align="center">Barnacles are indifferent when tides of change are set.</h1> <p align="justify">Circus sideshows offer an arcanum of locums' ex cathedra caveats given on the state of burlesque dancers performing in the Evening after general attendance was sent for the egress.</p>
- Example [Basic (Table)]:
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Charles Baudelaire: Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. - Code [HTML]:
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<table> <tbody> <tr> <td width="130" align="right" valign="top"><b>Charles Baudelaire:</;b></td> <td width="50" align="left"> Common sense tells us that the things of the earth » exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
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