Question

I’m making a very simple html webpage consisting only of text. How can I narrow the single column to make it easier for the reader to read?

I would like the body of text to be roughly in the center of the page and left aligned, with margins of white space (roughly equal) to left and right.

Answer 1

By putting the text inside a DIV with a style to control the width:

<DIV style='width: 300px'>     Text goes here. </DIV> 

For centering, based on Angela’s suggestion in the comments:

<DIV style='width: 300px; margin: 0 auto'>    Text goes here.<br>     And another line which is much longer. </DIV>