Re: Wanted: Help centering Text

On Aug 31, 1:27 am, "Siegfried Heintze" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm having trouble centering text. Given a coordinate, I want the option of
> centering text vertically, horizontally, both vertically and horizontally.
>
> I've been experiment with text-align and text-anchor and I read the
> documentation at the wc3 site.
>
> What I am doing seems to have no affect. I cannot determine if I am stupid
> or Mozilla is broken.It seems to me that adding text-anchor="end" or
> text-align="middle" should have some affect but it does not.
>
> Perhaps someone could provide me with a working example?
>
> Thanks!
> Siegfried

I don't know where you've got text-align from but mozilla does support
text-anchor and partially supports alignment-baseline which may give
you the vertical effect you want.

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20030813/svggen/text-align-04-b.svg

Best regards

Robert