# HTML text formatting

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-formatting/80870>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [February 25, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-formatting/80870 "2005-02-25T13:05:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oli\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f05b48/32.png) [@Oli\_G](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Oli_G)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-formatting/80870/1 "2005-02-25T13:05:55Z")

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Ugh. Me and HTML = long time, no see.

Basically I need a chunk of text to justify, that is, span the width of a cell. I have it justified via \<p align=“justified”\> but it wont span the cell! Any ideas?

cheers!