How can I center something if I don't know ahead of time what the width is?

Question

I am trying to center a paragraph tag with some text in it within a div, but I can\'t seem to center it using margin: 0 auto without having to specify a fixed width for the

Answer 1

Try this using inline CSS:

<p style="text-align: center;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>

Or using just HTML

<p align="center">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>

Answer 2

here a nice workaround for centering a div with no width.

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