[html] HTML span align center not working?

I have some HTML:

<div align="center" style="border:1px solid red">
This is some text in a div element!
</div>

The Div is changing the spacing on my document, so I want to use a span for this instead.

But span is not centralizing the contents:

<span style="border:1px solid red;align=center">
This is some text in a div element!
</span>

How do I fix this?

EDIT:

My complete code:

<html>
<body>

<p>This is a paragraph. This text has no alignment specified.</p>

<span style="border:1px solid red;text-align=center">
  This is some text in a div element!
</span>

</body>
</html>

This question is related to html css

The answer is


The align attribute is deprecated. Use CSS text-align instead. Also, the span will not center the text unless you use display:block or display:inline-block and set a value for the width, but then it will behave the same as a div (block element).

Can you post an example of your layout? Use www.jsfiddle.net


On top of all the other explanations, I believe you're using equal "=" sign, instead of colon ":":

<span style="border:1px solid red;text-align=center">

It should be:

<span style="border:1px solid red;text-align:center">

span.login-text {
    font-size: 22px;
    display:table;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

<span class="login-text">Welcome To .....CMP</span>

For me it worked very well. try this also


Just use word-wrap:break-word; in the css. It works.


Please use the following style. margin:auto normally used to center align the content. display:table is needed for span element

<span style="margin:auto; display:table; border:1px solid red;">
    This is some text in a div element!
</span>

Span is inline-block and adjusts to inline text size, with a tenacity that blocks most efforts to style out of inline context. To simplify layout style (limit conflicts), add div to 'p' tag with line break.

<p> some default stuff
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;"> your entered stuff </div>