website html ? how can you make the text NOT go to the far left & right of the page?

Question

in my website i have a long paragraph i wrote and its centered. it takes up 3 lines on my screen here but i wish it wouldnt go to the very left side and right side. some how make it 4 or 5 lines but have it in the middle of the page with about 2 inches of blank space on each side.. any ideas, i do understand html so ill catch on to what your saying.. thanks

Answer 1

put your paragraph inside a

Answer 2

If you use a style to set a width, margin:auto will center the element. For example,

Answer 3

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NOTE: The & symbol and the nbsp; should be together in order for the code to work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You could use this code:
& nbsp;

The code: & nbsp; equals one space.

So, here's an example HTML code using the & nbsp; code:

"http://www.yahoo.com"
Hello and welcome to Yahoo.com!

Answer 4

injanier, remember that margin:auto won't work on IE!!

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font face?? center?? that's deprecated tags!! that's what you teach??