# How to center text? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [October 3, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162 "2018-10-03T17:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AcrobatEpee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/acrobatepee/32/26336_2.png) [@AcrobatEpee](https://community.thunkable.com/u/AcrobatEpee)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/1 "2018-10-03T17:55:49Z")
Hey ! I have these lists ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/7/0/700c1099d0a99903a25b31654ac8183b67f2c2f4.png) which shows this : ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/a/f/afd73e49600d7d7132c4af8c017e72ae92148c67.jpeg) And I would like to find a way to center the elements of both three lists. Thanks for your replies ! ---
**Author:** ![Elanor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/elanor/32/24039_2.png) [@Elanor](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Elanor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/2 "2018-10-04T20:14:02Z")
In the Advanced tab, do you have a menu called “text style”? In that menu, if you scroll down, you should see a drop down menu labelled “text align.” One of the options is “center.” Not sure if it will work for this, but it works for me in other situations… 😅 ---
**Author:** ![AcrobatEpee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/acrobatepee/32/26336_2.png) [@AcrobatEpee](https://community.thunkable.com/u/AcrobatEpee)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/3 "2018-10-04T20:25:25Z")
Sadly this option isn’t available on listviewer, that’s why I’m asking 🙂 Thanks for helping anyway ! ---
**Author:** ![Elanor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/elanor/32/24039_2.png) [@Elanor](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Elanor)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/4 "2018-10-05T01:39:36Z")
Right! Listviewer. You said that. For some reason, I was thinking of a text entry field. Sorry about that. I haven’t used the list viewer, but my understanding is that it retrieves data from spreadsheets, right? If you change the text formatting in the spreadsheet, does it change the alignment in Thunkable? ---
**Author:** ![AcrobatEpee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/acrobatepee/32/26336_2.png) [@AcrobatEpee](https://community.thunkable.com/u/AcrobatEpee)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 5:45am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/5 "2018-10-05T05:45:56Z")
I use it with firebase, and I cannot change it’s form unless I add spaces, which is not very relevant as soon as I change phone 😕 So bad because your idea was good 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AcrobatEpee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/acrobatepee/32/26336_2.png) [@AcrobatEpee](https://community.thunkable.com/u/AcrobatEpee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/6 "2018-10-06T23:39:21Z")
Anyone can help on this one ? Thanks ! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AcrobatEpee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/acrobatepee/32/26336_2.png) [@AcrobatEpee](https://community.thunkable.com/u/AcrobatEpee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/7 "2018-10-07T22:39:11Z")
Hey @Mark, haven’t found a solution, I think it’s time I call for your help 🙂 ! ---
**Author:** ![AcrobatEpee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/acrobatepee/32/26336_2.png) [@AcrobatEpee](https://community.thunkable.com/u/AcrobatEpee)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/8 "2018-10-13T20:32:07Z")
No hint anyone ? ---
**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 8:29am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/9 "2018-10-14T08:29:54Z")
Hi, I think this is not yet possible. For List Viewer, we cannot specify a monospace font. We also cannot find out the length of the text in order to use spaces for alignment. Is this solution suitable for you: you need to change the data format and the order of the fields so that they are stored in Firebase evenly, for example: 00028\_\_\_\_\_\_00041\_\_\_\_\_\_Random 0000X\_\_\_\_\_\_0000X\_\_\_\_\_\_Clickwise 0000X\_\_\_\_\_\_00004\_\_\_\_\_\_Splited For clarity, I indicated \_ instead of spaces. That is, the fields U1 and U2 have a certain width (in this example, a width of 5 characters is chosen). Alex ---
**Author:** ![AcrobatEpee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/acrobatepee/32/26336_2.png) [@AcrobatEpee](https://community.thunkable.com/u/AcrobatEpee)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/10 "2018-10-14T12:06:28Z")
I don’t think this is possible for me as the spaces would change in fonction of the phone size, etc. Looking forward for the team to add this ! ---
**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/11 "2018-10-19T07:36:22Z")
The size of the spaces for different phones does not matter because for one phone their size will be the same. My method is not suitable for centering. My way is to align with the left edge. You can also try using the tab character. ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:55am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-center-text/50162/12 "2024-11-08T11:55:02Z")