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Hello! I finished a test run of my first story game, and I figured out how to link pages to one another! The issue I noticed is that you can't write text in the center, and I've been trying to figure out how to go about that since I have an image but it's to the left when I'm trying to have it sit in the center of a page to act as a book cover. I'm using the rich editor and I see no option to add the different alignments...

There isn't really a way to center an image in the rich editor. You can use regular html/css to do it. Here is a good article on how: How to center an image

it didn't appear to work, so i resorted to just keep hitting the space button until it's in the middle :') thank you for trying to help tho!!

[Center] but with the angle brackets.

The trick that I use is to use the less than symbol, then p style="text-align:center" then the greater than symbol, then my image hotlink, close, then close out the style tag using less than symbol then / then style then greater than symbol, and—IMPORTANT—use transparent sides on either side of the image the exact length necessary to cover the entire page.

Here is the text I use:

I'll post one from Shadow of a God-King, but given the size of the chat it may not actually be centered here. But rest assured this works in the default reader.

Obviously if this destroys the forum I'll edit it.

Just [center]text[/center] really does still work, the site is very old.

We can also do strikethroughs ez.

I've been using this method for like 8 years lol. I'm too old to change.... btw I'm sure there was a reason I did it this way. Maybe it's related to the div stuff I do on my pages. Can't recall.

Well your way is how modern html is supposed to work, but CYS is from simpler times.

I actually use [i] and [b] instead of strong and whatever the one for italics is. \_(-_- )_/

Same. Why type more letters.

I wasn't able to achieve it unfortunately, I tried most of the HTML I could find and I posted it in source, but it doesn't work. I'll just use the space bar, thanks for trying to help tho!

Do your stories have scripting on? In "change editor features" in the Story Properties tab.

<.center><.img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Cape_may.jpg/500px-Cape_may.jpg" alt="Sunset" style="max-width: 80%;" /><./center>

Will yield this (obviously take the dots out of the angle tags so it can work):

I know I might be beating a dead horse here but it can definitely work. Just make sure you have the Rich Text Editor DISABLED when you try to use any of the HTML you saw in the thread.

this sounds very helpful, but how would one go about disabling rich editor?

Head over to your profile settings and there should be a checkbox called "Use rich text editor." Uncheck that to disable it.

If you disable RTE and use HTML on your page like what myself and others have shown you in this thread, it should work as intended. However, if you reenable RTE after making the changes and try to change that HTML-modified page with RTE on, it might break the HTML.

I'm not 100% sure, but just to be on the safe side, I would recommend making ALL of your HTML changes to a page in one fell swoop before turning RTE back on and continuing on the other pages. If you leave that page untouched after turning on RTE, you should be fine to continue using RTE so long as you don't try to edit the page with HTML.

I thought it was disabled by default with new accounts now, did you turn it on at some point?

I'm pretty sure it is? I don't remember turning it off manually.