Title: Add class to text
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Add class to text

 *  Resolved [kanlbll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kanlbll/)
 * (@kanlbll)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-class-to-text/)
 * Hi,
    I was thinking of adding a class to a paragraph in order to be able to style
   it, is this possible? I have a paragrah and I only want this text to be 500 px
   wide instead of the full 1140px, but keep the rest of the content at 1140. Or
   how should I do this?

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 *  Thread Starter [kanlbll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kanlbll/)
 * (@kanlbll)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-class-to-text/#post-6680618)
 * Don’t worry, I figured it out myself!
 *  [hannah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hannahritner/)
 * (@hannahritner)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-class-to-text/#post-6680679)
 * Glad you were able to figure this out! 🙂
 * Hannah

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