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Template:Center

The <center> tag in HTML is now deprecated, and there is no one-size-fits-all replacement for it. This template is designed to replicate the tag's functionality using nested <div> elements as a workaround so that they do not need to be typed in every time something needs to be centered:

<div style="text-align: center;">
    <div style="margin: auto auto auto auto;">
    ...
    </div>
</div>

{{centre}} works as well.

Parameters

{{{1}}} (required)

One unnamed parameter, consisting of the text to be centered.

Note: Pipe characters (|) must be escaped as {{!}} or {{pipe}}, equals signs must be escaped as {{=}} (this may apply to tags as well, e.g. <div style{{=}}"…">), and other special characters and character sequences may need to be escaped accordingly, except for ones inside <nowiki>, <pre>, <math>, and <syntaxhighlight> tags.

width (optional)

Pass in the desired width (if needed).

Margins

Note that, in CSS, margins specified without directional keywords are specified in the order style="margin: [top] [right] [bottom] [left];".

top (optional)

Pass in the desired upper margin; the default value is auto.

bottom (optional)

Pass in the desired lower margin; the default value is auto.

both (optional)

Pass in a desired size to set both upper and lower margins to the same desired value. This will override top and bottom.