text alignment issues

  • CRA1

    (@cra1)


    14 years ago

    hi everyone,
    i am new with word press and picking up things pretty fast except the text alignment issue. why is it when in the edit page i can line up a title text above a pic and it is centered but when i publish it and look on the site its off centered. the same with paragraghs, why is there more room for text in the edit screen per line than on site page itself. it makes it hard to judge how the text will end up on the site. am i doing something wrong, is there a trick i am missing, is it just me……….. please help
    thanks
    CRA1

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years ago

    You may need to start editing your theme’s stylesheet. Try using Firefox with the Firebug add-on for this kind of CSS work.
    http://getfirebug.com/

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    14 years ago

    I believe that you are just experiencing the way HTML works plus the quirks of the TinyMCE editor.

    When you send a page from WordPress to a browser, it is in HTML. HTML automatically converts any string of spaces into a single space, so you can’t use that to space things apart. Tabs and carriage returns are just ignored, so the normal word processing ways of formatting text will not work.

    Also, HTML wraps text around other items according to a set of rules that are not always easy to duplicate.

    Finally, TinyMCE is not a WYSIWYG editor (and neither are any of its replacements that I am aware of). It tries to figure out what you want and put in the proper HTML tags to maintain some of the formatting but not all.

    So, you may just have to live with these conditions or learn to code HTML and use that mode to enter your posts.

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