Formatting text, Suggestions with how-to? - html

I'm trying to figure out how to format the code below so that the first two blocks of info display side by side, then display the third one centered underneath it. I tried using a listing style with css to format it so but doesn't seem to really work for me.
Help/Suggestions?
<div class="inauguration-content">
<h3>Inauguration</h3>
Friday, April 17, 2009<br />
3:00 p.m.<br />
Sarkus-Busch Theater<br />
Robert McLaughlin College Center</p>
<h3>Inaugural Gala</h3>
7-11 p.m.<br />
Robert McLaughlin College Center<br />
Featuring hors d'oeuvres, open bar and dinner and dessert stations<br />
Entertainment by Frankie Michaels<br />
Cocktail Attire Recommended<br />
Tickets are $100 per person<br />
Proceeds benefit the Herkimer County College Foundation</p>
<h3>Important Information for Delegates</h3>
Direction to HCCC<br />
Campus Map<br />
Lodging Information<br />
Delegates marching in the Inaugural Procession should report to the Open Student Area, first floor of the Library Complex at 2:00 p.m. for robing and assembly.<br />
Delegates are expected to furnish their own academic regalia.</p>
</div>

You can create three div's.
The first div (top-left) would have a width set at, say, 50% of the container (e.g. viewport) and float left.
The second div (top-right) would have a width set at, say, 50% of the container (e.g. viewport) and float right.
The third div (bottom-center) would have a witdh set at, say, 100% of the container (e.g. viewport) use the CSS 'clear:both' to position itself immediately below the tallest of the two floats. To center, use a smaller width (e.g. 50% or 20em) and set the CSS margin-left and margin-right to auto (see example below.)
The above will dynamically pack the three divs to accommodate any wrapping and vertical growing (including because of the increase of font size by the user for accessibility purposes) inside any of the three div's.
<html><body>
<div style="width:50%; float:left">
Inauguration<br/>
Friday, April 17, 2009<br/>
3:00 p.m.<br/>
Sarkus-Busch Theater<br/>
Robert McLaughlin College Center
</div>
<div style="width:50%; float:right">
Inaugural Gala<br/>
7-11 p.m.<br/>
Robert McLaughlin College Center<br/>
Featuring hors d'oeuvres, open bar and dinner and dessert stations<br/>
Entertainment by Frankie Michaels<br/>
Cocktail Attire Recommended<br/>
Tickets are $100 per person<br/>
Proceeds benefit the Herkimer County College Foundation
</div>
<div style="width:50%; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; clear:both">
Important Information for Delegates<br/>
Direction to HCCC<br/>
Campus Map<br/>
Lodging Information<br/>
Delegates marching in the Inaugural Procession should report to the Open Student Area, first floor of the
Library Complex at 2:00 p.m. for robing and assembly.<br/>
Delegates are expected to furnish their own academic regalia.
</div>
</body></html>

Just for fun, here is the layout you wanted using lists.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>container Title</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body {
font-family:Georgia;
}
#container {
width:700px;
margin:0 auto;
}
ul {
display:block;
margin:0;
padding:0px;
width:50%;
float:left;
}
ul.full {
margin:0 auto;
float:none;
clear:both;
padding-top:5px;
}
ul li {
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
padding-left:10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<ul>
<li><h4>Inauguration</h4></li>
<li>Friday, April 17, 2009</li>
<li>3:00 p.m.</li>
<li>Sarkus-Busch Theater</li>
<li>Robert McLaughlin College Center</li
></ul>
<ul>
<li><h4>Inaugural Gala</h4></li>
<li>7-11 p.m.</li>
<li>Robert McLaughlin College Center</li>
<li>Featuring hors d'oeuvres, open bar and dinner and dessert stations</li>
<li>Entertainment by Frankie Michaels</li>
<li>Cocktail Attire Recommended</li>
<li>Tickets are $100 per person</li>
<li>Proceeds benefit the Herkimer County College Foundation</li>
</ul>
<ul class="full">
<li><h4>Important Information for Delegates</h4></li>
<li>Direction to HCCC</li>
<li>Campus Map</li>
<li>Lodging Information</li>
<li>Delegates marching in the Inaugural Procession should report to the Open Student Area, first floor of the Library Complex at 2:00 p.m. for robing and assembly.</li>
<li>Delegates are expected to furnish their own academic regalia. </li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>

I wouldn't style this with a list, just use divs.
<style type="text/css">
.left { float:left; }
.right { float:right; }
.half { width:50%; }
.centered { text-align:center; }
// from http://www.webtoolkit.info/css-clearfix.html
.clearfix:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
line-height: 0;
height: 0;
}
.clearfix {
display: inline-block;
}
html[xmlns] .clearfix {
display: block;
}
* html .clearfix {
height: 1%;
}
</style>
<div class="clearfix">
<div style="left half">
<strong>Inauguration</strong><br />
Friday, April 17, 2009<br />
3:00 p.m.<br />
Sarkus-Busch Theater<br />
Robert McLaughlin College Center<br />
</div>
<div style="right half">
<strong>Inaugural Gala</strong><br />
7-11 p.m.<br />
Robert McLaughlin College Center<br />
Featuring hors d'oeuvres, open bar and dinner and dessert stations<br />
Entertainment by Frankie Michaels<br />
Cocktail Attire Recommended<br />
Tickets are $100 per person<br />
Proceeds benefit the Herkimer County College Foundation<br />
</div>
</div>
<div class="centered">
<strong>Important Information for Delegates</strong><br />
Direction to HCCC<br />
Campus Map<br />
Lodging Information<br />
Delegates marching in the Inaugural Procession should report to the Open Student Area, first floor of the Library Complex at 2:00 p.m. for robing and assembly.<br />
Delegates are expected to furnish their own academic regalia.<br />
</div>

<div style="width:49%; float:left"><p>
Inauguration<br/>
Friday, April 17, 2009<br/>
3:00 p.m.<br/>
Sarkus-Busch Theater<br/>
Robert McLaughlin College Center</p>
</div>
<div style="width:49%; float:left"><p>
Inaugural Gala<br/>
7-11 p.m.<br/>
Robert McLaughlin College Center<br/>
Featuring hors d'oeuvres, open bar and dinner and dessert stations<br/>
Entertainment by Frankie Michaels<br/>
Cocktail Attire Recommended<br/>
Tickets are $100 per person<br/>
Proceeds benefit the Herkimer County College Foundation</p>
</div>
<div style="width:50%;margin:auto "><p>
Important Information for Delegates<br/>
Direction to HCCC<br/>
Campus Map<br/>
Lodging Information<br/>
Delegates marching in the Inaugural Procession should
report to the Open Student Area, first floor of the
Library Complex at 2:00 p.m. for robing and assembly.<br/>
Delegates are expected to furnish their own academic regalia.</p>
</div>

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I am trying to get the div with div class bioDiv to line up under the image but have tried so many things that I am just getting more and more confused can anyone look at the code for me and give me a clue? Looking to keep the same look just move the div to a more central location.
here is the code:
body {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
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background-size: 100% 100vh;
}
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padding-bottom: 50px;
padding-left: 30px;
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<h2 style="color: goldenrod">Biography</h2>
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<h2 style="color: goldenrod">Graphic Design</h2>
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I would suggest making two containers (an aside and a main) and put the navigation list in the aside and the image and bio in the main. Something like this:
.container {
display: flex;
}
<div class="container">
<aside>
<h1>Put your nav here</h1>
</aside>
<main>
<img src="" height="200" width="300" />
<div>
<h1>Put Bio here</h1>
</div>
</main>
</div>
PS: In case you didn't know, aside and main are semantic HTML5 tags used to markup a page. You can use divs instead of them, but it's not best practice
In Bootstrap you do not have to dictate the widths etc, it can all be done using standard Bootstrap CSS which you dictate as a class= in your HTML. So, for the image you could have that fluid inside a column.
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-10 mx-auto">
<img src="../img/images/me.jpg" class="img-fluid" alt="picture of cary"/>
</div>
That's full width (12 wide) on small screens and not quite full width (10 wide) on anything larger but mx-auto should center the entire Div. Setting the image to class img-fluid makes it the full width of the Div no matter the screen.
Hopefully after that you can use exactly the same column set up for .bioDiv.
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-10 mx-auto">
<h2 style="color: goldenrod">Biography</h2>
continued content here....
</div>
Ultimately you are just wrapping the image in a Div and setting both it and bioDiv to the same column parameters. It should not hurt in any way to set up menuDiv a similar way.

bullet points not remaining central when resizing fluid container

I've just registered here and I am looking for a little help.
I'm working on my tribute page for free code camp and the bullet points I have are not remaining central when resizing the fluid container.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Here is a link to my code pen so you can take a look code pen
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The list is not aligned with the title because the list has a left-padding, as it should, so that the bullets are visible and there's spacing between them and the text. You could either remove the 40 pixels of left padding on the ul.text-center element or add 40 pixels of left-padding to the title.

How can I fit in more links at the right without crowding only in one line by moving them slightly to the left?

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<title>Home - Welcome to Micro Skills!</title>
<head>
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</head>
<body>
</body>
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<div class="container">
<div class="logo">
<h1><img src="microskills_logo.jpg" width="275" height="106" alt="Logo - Micro Sills"></h1>
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<div class="navBar">
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<b>
<li><img src="home_icon.jpg" width="256" height="256" alt="Home" class="home_icon"></li>
<li>About Us</li>
<li>Events</li>
<li>Get Involved</li>
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<p>Welcome to the Community MicroSkills Development Centre website.
Since 1984, we have been serving communities in the Greater Toronto Area. As a non-profit, charitable organization, we strive to achieve excellence in our service delivery to women, newcomers to Canada, youth and other community members who trust us to support them in improving their economic and social well-being.
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#charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
body{
width:100%;
margin:auto;
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height: 10px;
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margin-left:2%;
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color:#FFF;
text-transform:uppercase;
font-size:12px;
font-stretch:ultra-condensed;
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I want the same positioning, but I want to move the text and image in the "navBar" slightly to the left to fit everything in one line.
You should add a width property to your .navBar CSS.
http://codepen.io/calebanth/pen/KrZBXo
.navBar {
float: right;
height: 10px;
width: 30%;
}

Table not centering in browser, using HTML and CSS

I can not get the tables to center in the browser. Please look at my code and let me know what needs to be changed. thanks so much. I have looked over all the internal style sheets as well as the inline that I have placed on the table tags. I have another webpage that is coded the same and is similar and I can't see any differences, it is also not centering.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
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<meta name="keywords" content="'Applie pie',Filling, Delicious,'Grandma Reeves', Recipe"/>
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<style type="text/css" media="all">
body{
background-color: #FEFACB;
background-image: url("images/lemonbackground.jpg");
text-align:center;
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h1 {
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size:24px;
text-align:center;
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h2 {
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color: #FDC62D;
font-size:20px;
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table{
background-color:#ffffff;
text-align:center;
width:850px;
height:800px;
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td{
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table.center (
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margin-right:auto;
)
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<table class="center">
<tr>
<td>
<table class="center" style="width:85%;" />
<tr>
<td>
<img src="images/filling_smnav.gif" width="154" height="143" alt="Click here for the lemon meringue pie and filling recipes"></img>
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<td>
<img src="images/crust_smnav.gif" width="154" height="143" alt="Click here for the flaky crust recipe"></img>
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<td>
<img src="images/sm_logo.gif" width="312" height="183" alt="Lemon Meringue Pie recipe from Grandma Reeves"></img>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">
<p style="text-alight:center;"><img src="images/yellowbar.gif" width="636" height="8" alt="red bar"></img></p>
<h1> Pie Crust Recipe </h1>
<h2> Ingredients</h2>
<ul>
<li>2 Cups flour</li>
<li>1 Cup Butter Flavor Crisco brand shortening</li>
<li>1 tsp salt</li>
<li>1 tsp sugar</li>
<li>1/4 tsp baking powder</li>
<li>1/3 Cup milk</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p> Stir until lumps are dissolved (can use a hand mixer) </p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Bring to a Boil</h2>
<ul>
<li>4 cups water</li>
<li>2 cups sugar</li>
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<h2> Directions </h2>
<p> Add all dry ingredients together.</p>
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</td>
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Add this to your table css:
table
{
margin: 0 auto;
}
fiddle, if need be: http://jsfiddle.net/vvov1y8q/
The correct answer is to not set the margin to 0 if you want to display the table in middle of the browser.
Specifically, try the following this code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Pie Crust Recipe | Pies by Grandma Reeves</title>
<meta name="author" content="Jaeden Kimball Harris"/>
<meta name="keywords" content="'Applie pie',Filling, Delicious,'Grandma Reeves', Recipe"/>
<meta name="description" content="Come enjoy a hot applie pie, perfect for the fall season or any season really. Straight out of Grandma Reeves kitchen!"/>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
body{
background-color: #FEFACB;
background-image: url("images/lemonbackground.jpg");
text-align:center;
}
h1 {
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size:24px;
text-align:center;
}
h2 {
font: 'Comic Sans', times, serif;
color: #FDC62D;
font-size:20px;
}
table{
background-color:#ffffff;
text-align:center;
width:100%;
height:800px;
}
td{
vertical-align:top; padding:15px;
}
table.center (
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
)
ul {
list-style-type:square
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table class="center">
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<table class="center" style="width:50%;margin:0 auto" />
<tr>
<td>
<img src="images/filling_smnav.gif" width="154" height="143" alt="Click here for the lemon meringue pie and filling recipes"> </img>
</td>
<td>
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<h1> Pie Crust Recipe </h1>
<h2> Ingredients</h2>
<ul>
<li>2 Cups flour</li>
<li>1 Cup Butter Flavor Crisco brand shortening</li>
<li>1 tsp salt</li>
<li>1 tsp sugar</li>
<li>1/4 tsp baking powder</li>
<li>1/3 Cup milk</li>
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<p> Stir until lumps are dissolved (can use a hand mixer) </p>
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<h2>Bring to a Boil</h2>
<ul>
<li>4 cups water</li>
<li>2 cups sugar</li>
</ul>
<h2> Directions </h2>
<p> Add all dry ingredients together.</p>
<p>Use two knives and criss cross them to cut the Butter Flavor Crisco® into the flour mixture. Cut it into the flour until the mixture is tiny crumbs.</p>
<p>Sprinkle milk over top of the mixture and gently fold the milk into the mixture, not handling it.</p>
<p>Spread some flour on the counter and place 1/2 of the mixture on the flour. Lightly flour the rolling pin. Roll out thin. The secret avoid handling and try to only roll it out once.</p>
<p>Carefully place the dough in the pie pan (folding it in 1/2 first sometimes helps)</p>
<p>Flute the edges (pinching the edges with your thumb and index finger). </p>
<p>Bake 400° for 10-12 minutes (until lightly brown)</p>
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I hope this works for you.

Container not expanding with content

I am having a bit of a problem with one of my containers. It is not expanding with my content. Here is the code:
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<div id="centerContent">
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<div id="centerLeft">
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CSS:
#centerContent {
width: 980px;
height: 100%;
background-image:url(../images/main-special-bg-strip.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}
#centerLeft {
width: 572px;
height: 100%;
float:left;
}
#centerRight {
width: 408px;
height: 100%;
float:right;
}
What I am looking to do is have the centerContent div stretch with the two divs inside. I have a background strip on the centerContent that will allow the white background to expand 100%.
I hope that made some sort of sense and thank you in advance for any and all help.
Add overflow:auto; to #centerContent.
Since the child divs are floated, the parent collapses and acts like it has no content. Adding overflow:auto; restores the expected behavior.