Name

center — HTML 4.01

Synopsis

<center> . . . </center>

Centers its contents horizontally in the available width of the page or the containing element. Use of this element is strongly discouraged in favor of style sheets for centering elements.

Notes

Deprecated in HTML 4.01/XHTML. Not in HTML5.

Start/End Tags

Required/Required

Attributes

Core, Internationalization, Events

Example

<center>
    <h1>Introduction</h1>
    <p>Once upon a time . . . </p>
</center>

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