Center

Having the ability to center text is a necessity when writing a paper or a report. Unfortunately, Markdown doesn’t have any concept of text alignment (one possible exception is when using <a href="http://www.bixiaguangnian.com/manual/markdown/4115.html">tables</a>). The good news is that there’s an HTML tag you can use: <code>&lt;center&gt;</code>. If your Markdown processor supports <a href="http://www.bixiaguangnian.com/manual/markdown/4111.html">HTML</a>, you can place these tags around whatever text you want to center align.

```markdown
<center>This text is centered.</center>
```

The rendered output looks like this:

<center>This text is centered.</center>

The <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">&lt;center&gt;</code> HTML tag is technically supported but officially <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/center">deprecated</a>, which means it works for now but you’re not supposed to be using it. Unfortunately, there’s not another pure HTML alternative. You could try using one of the CSS alternatives. Not all Markdown applications provide CSS support, but if the one you’re using does, here’s an alternative to the <code>&lt;center&gt;</code> tag:

```markdown
<p style=“text-align:center”>Center this text</p>
```

If this is supported by your Markdown application, the output looks like this:

<p style=“text-align:center”>Center this text</p>