Title: align blog excerpt
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# align blog excerpt

 *  Resolved [zedonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zedonk/)
 * (@zedonk)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/)
 * Hello,
 * Struggling to get the blog excerpt to align under blog title on homepage using
   intergalactic theme.
 * [http://test.zedonk.net/](http://test.zedonk.net/)
 * Any pointers?

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 *  [sacredpath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sacredpath/)
 * (@sacredpath)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/#post-6450374)
 * Hi, on your Welcome, Enter Ye text on the front page, it appears to be aligned
   under the title. Are you not seeing it that way? If not, what browser/browser
   version are you using and could you possibly take a screenshot?
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/#post-6450396)
 * The post titles in Intergalactic are centered above the excerpts for a balanced
   look. Are you saying you’d like the post titles to be left-aligned, instead?
 *  Thread Starter [zedonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zedonk/)
 * (@zedonk)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/#post-6450405)
 * Thanks for you help, Kathryn, you’re clearly an expert in these parts! Have read
   several of your posts over last few days…
 * So with the alignment issue, i figured out that it has to do with the length 
   of text in the ‘excerpt’ field on the blog.
 * If you see the homepage: [http://test.zedonk.net/](http://test.zedonk.net/)
 * The ‘get it sorted’ blog has only ‘headline information’ in the ‘excerpt field,
   and aligns to the left.
 * Whereas the ‘WELCOME, ENTER YE’ blog has ‘i definitly need something to be in
   here but i wonder if it is expecting it to be quite a long test and indeeed whether
   it cuts it off at a certain point if it gets to long. i suppose this must be 
   long enought o find out’ in the excerpt field. And it aligns centrally.
 * Hope that makes sense to you. From my perspective, I figure I just need to make
   sure i have x characters in the excerpt for it to align.
 *  Thread Starter [zedonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zedonk/)
 * (@zedonk)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/#post-6450406)
 * sacred path, i’m using chrome, Version 44.0.2403.157 m
 * screenshot here: [https://www.dropbox.com/s/lr2egyp6dw5dpsd/homepagescreenshot.png?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/lr2egyp6dw5dpsd/homepagescreenshot.png?dl=0)
 *  Thread Starter [zedonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zedonk/)
 * (@zedonk)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/#post-6450407)
 * looks the same in edge, btw
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/#post-6450408)
 * do you meam to justify the text for the excerpts on the front page?
 * if so, try:
 * `.home.blog .entry-summary { text-align: justify; }`
 * [http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_text-align.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_text-align.asp)
 * make sure to close the last style in your child theme’s style.css first – at 
   the moment, the last `}` is missing …
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/#post-6450412)
 * I think a screenshot might help here. This is how the alignment is working for
   those excerpts on the front page:
 * I used a browser inspector to select the excerpt element (the entry-summary class),
   which shows you how large the container is.
 * [⌊Zedonk This and that⌉⌊Zedonk This and that⌉[
 * The width of the container is 860px.
 * Does that help visualize how it’s working?
 *  Thread Starter [zedonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zedonk/)
 * (@zedonk)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/#post-6450456)
 * thanks kathryn.
 * yes, that does visualize it but i’m still not sure how to fix it. the excerpt
   text in your example is aligning to the left of the container, rather than above
   the ‘read more’ button.
 * for the balanced look it would need to align with the blog title and read more
   button, ie centrally rather than left.
 * i hope I’m making sense, and there’s a solution.
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/#post-6450459)
 * There isn’t a way to align the left edge of each excerpt automatically with the
   left edge of the Read More button, since the Read More button is centered.
 * One option is to also center your excerpts above the centered Read More buttons:
 *     ```
       .home .entry-summary {
         text-align: center;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [zedonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zedonk/)
 * (@zedonk)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/#post-6450460)
 * Bingo!
 * Think maybe I wasn’t communicating well enough. That’s what i wanted all along;
   to center excerpts above the centered Read More buttons.
 * Perfect, resolved, thank you!
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-blog-excerpt/#post-6450468)
 * Great, glad we got there in the end. 🙂

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