Text alignment help

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Hi there,

I'm fairly new to eBook creation and have some of the basics down but I've run into a problem with the latest one I'm working on.

I am trying to have three separate pieces of text in the same line appear right aligned, center aligned, and left aligned. I have class styles for each piece of text with their specific alignment that are used elsewhere in the book and work fine, however Sigil doesn't seem to like having three separate classes in the same line despite using <span> tags to separate them which should work in theory, right? Am I using the <span> tags incorrectly?

I have even tried to simplify the HTML using style tags and simply floating each piece of text where I need, however it doesn't seem to want to centre align the middle piece of text at all.

I hope this makes sense and I have included a screenshot of the simplified version to illustrate. Any help would be amazing!

[Karellen]

I would use a single line ,3 column table and format each cell as required

[philja]

I don't think float can take the value 'center'. But you can achieve the result you want by putting the line concerned in a <p> with a class defined as 'center' and then within that <p>, using spans to float your words left or right.

For example:

<p class="center"><span style="float:left">lorem</span>ipsum <span style="float:right">dolor</span></p>

where the CSS stylesheet defines:

p.center {text-align: center;}

Or use a table, as Karellen suggests.