Title: text alignment issues
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# text alignment issues

 *  [CRA1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cra1/)
 * (@cra1)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-alignment-issues/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-alignment-issues/#post-2639917)
 * 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/](http://getfirebug.com/)
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-alignment-issues/#post-2640117)
 * 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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## Tags

 * [alignment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alignment/)
 * [centered](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/centered/)
 * [text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/text/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-alignment-issues/#post-2640117)
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