: My text won't center in Dreamweaver (using bootstrap) I'm creating a website in Dreamweaver using Bootstrap, and I'm having trouble getting my text to centre in any of the columns. I've tried

@Berryessa866

Without seeing the page itself or any more code what I'm assume is that the text-align is being overridden by a more specific selector (either an #id or more specific class)

You can read more about CSS specificity here:


CSS-Tricks — Specifics on CSS Specificity


To see exactly what CSS is affecting the element in question you can use the developer tools of your browser. I will use Google Chrome as an example but there are similar tools in most modern browsers.


Right-Click the element you are interested in and select "Inspect".





The Developer Tools window will open with the element you are interested in selected in the DOM outline. Open to the "Computed" tab.





From there you can scroll down to the property you are interested in (text-align in this case), clicking the arrow to the left of the property will open a list of all the CSS that is affecting that property—the top one being the one that actually applies.

From the information here you should be able to figure out how to fix your code. Most probably by removing a style in a previous declaration or increasing the specificity of the style you want to apply.


You can read more about Chrome's developer tools here:


Chrome Developers — DevTools

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@Angela777

I've figured out the issue: I'd applied some CSS to an outer container that seemed to be affecting the text - after removing this the text has started aligning properly. Thanks for your answers everyone.
I hope this is an OK way for me to close the question.

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@Mendez620

I believe you are not identifying the class or paragraph you are using correctly. If you are using a class, put a dot in front of the name.

.p9 {
font-family: Roboto-light;
text-align: center;
color: #171717 ;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: 300;
line-height: 18px;
}


Aside from this I would strongly recommend changing editor.

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