blog tips #2

do you like the look of a "justified" post? do you even know what that means? don't worry. i didn't used to know. well if you look at most of my posts, you can see that there is the same amount of space on each line of text. if you don't have your post set to "justify" then you might start out having your post aligned to the left, but it will get all jagged on the right side because the words don't fit. it is really easy to add this feature into your blog. i like the look of justified posts, so i will explain how to do it!

go into your dashboard>layout> edit html> then you need to search for .post. that is post with a period in front of it. an easy way to do this would be to hit CTRL f. this will bring up a find option and you can just type in .post.

it should bring you to this part of text, or something similar to it:

.post {
margin:.5em 0 0.5em;
border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;
padding-bottom:1.5em;
}

next you will want to insert this little text code( i am using yellowto make it more clear):

text-align:justify;

right inbetween these two bottom lines:

padding-bottom:1.5em;

}

so basically it will just end up looking like this:

.post {
margin:.5em 0 0.5em;
border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;
padding-bottom:1.5em;
text-align:justify;
}

then just hit preview, to make sure it worked. and then save! you now will have justified posts if you want them!

*edited to add:
if you want to just justify one post, there is an option while you are in the compose mode when you are creating a post. you just have to click on the icon with the lines and the arrow pointing down, and scroll to the very last option! alycia brought this up to me, and i was aware of it, but just thought i would let you guys know that is an easy option as well if you just want to apply it to a particular post. i however have over 300 posts that i didn't want to go back and change each individually, so if you do it the above way, it should work for most of them!  and you won't have to select the justify option each time you post. also, i have tried to justify in the compose mode before, and sometimes it works, and other times it doesn't!  if you can get it to work for you? great! i think it might just depend on your layout!*

p.s. this was a "scheduled" post, so i hope that it works! :) hope everyone has a happy friday!

p.s.s. i feel like i have to post a picture in this post. so i leave you with this.

bahhh!!!!!