Can you justify text with this...

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I am creating a website with the free Try out Site Designer but I can't find an option to justify text. Can you not do that with this program?
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With VSD (Visual Site Designer) your options are Left, Right and Centered - no Full or Forced Justify.
When you choose the text tool and start typing, look at the object properties (same box where you can choose your font and text color and you'll see the other options (bold, italic, font size, bulleted list and justify r,l, or c).

For full justified text, you'd need to create it somewhere else (either using an iframe or a div to hold it) and then insert it with the html tool into the VSD page.
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Thank you. Can you please explain more on how to do it somewhere else option? Could it be Word? How do you use the "iframe" or "div" that you mention? And then, how do you insert them? Do you insert them as an image?
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Info, never ever use Word for anything that goes into an html file. Word has it's own code which is likely to mess up anything else.

The 'somewhere else' option involves a certain knowledge of html coding, and your best bet is the HTML Editor. You write or paste the text you want and click on 'justify' on the tool bar. When you are done, you open VSD and with the 'html tool' you create a rectangle on your page and paste in the text with the justify div surrounding it. It could look like something like this:

<div align="justify" style="width: 800px;">Your text goes here</div>

Of course you can set the width to suit your own preferences.
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And one more thing: Html doesn't know what a line break is, so it needs some code for it. But what you can do if it's a chunk of text with several paragraphs, change the above code to:

<div align="justify" style="width: 800px;"><pre>Your text goes here</pre></div>

The <pre></pre> part of it means preformatting.
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Oh fer pete's sake, why doesn't Coffeecup just add justification to the features? :lol:

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what Melissa Rhiannon said
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Melissa Rhiannon wrote:
Oh fer pete's sake, why doesn't Coffeecup just add justification to the features? :lol:


We could do that, but then it means delaying RSD by a few months. So if that is ok, we can certainly do that. ;)
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The <div> align attribute is not supported in HTML5. Use CSS instead.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_div_align.asp

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