Beginner question

Dinovorus

Hi!

I have a question that should seem dumb but, in the doc for Harlow ( http://twine2.neocities.org/ ), it deals with aligner with <tw-align>.

And.. I don't know how to close the <tw-align> element...

greyelf

You generally close HTML elements using a similar tag to the one you started it with except the end tag name has a forward slash at the start of it:
eg. <span> .... </span>  or  <tw-align> ..... </tw-align>

But that is not how your meant to use aligners, as the documentation shows your meant to use the combinations of equal,  greater than, and less than symbols.

eg.  ==>,  =><=,  <==>,  <==,  ===><=,  =><=====

Dinovorus

Oooooooooh god I'm stupid. I misread the documentation!
Sorry, I didn't get that it was single-line, and, I know a little HTML and I didn't understand why </tw-align> didn't work.

Thanks a lot for helphing a beginner!

veromary

It took me a bit of trial and error to find out that the alignment symbols go on a line by themselves like this:

=><=
Now this text will be centered.

Just adding it here in case it saves someone else a bit of frustration.

feliwebwork

veromary wrote: »

It took me a bit of trial and error to find out that the alignment symbols go on a line by themselves like this:

=><= 
Now this text will be centered.

Just adding it here in case it saves someone else a bit of frustration.

Thank you, it did help me out as I couldn't work out why it wasn't working for me.

I noticed also that if the code is wrapped in the

{

and

}

symbols for a "non-whitespace" wrap, the aligners do not work.

So this doesn't actually work for me:

{
=><= 
Now this text will be centered.
}

as it outputs:

=><=Now this text will be centered.

This is a problem, because it means that to use the aligners it outputs an extra <br/> element to my story.

It seems this is something that should be noted and fixed, as I am sure people do not want to have to add a line break to their story whenever they need to align text differently.