FP2000: Images in Centered Bulleted List Are Left Aligned

When you center a bulleted list on a page, the images used for the bullets remain aligned at the left margin of the page. This behavior only occurs when you have applied a theme.

When you create a bulleted list on a page, FrontPage uses standard HTML list tags. When you center the text in the list, FrontPage adds an align="center" attribute to the paragraph tag inside the list. When a Web browser or FrontPage read this code, the entire list appears centered.

When you use Picture Bullets, FrontPage uses tables to display the list rather than standard list tags. Therefore, when you center the list text, FrontPage adds the align="center" attribute to the paragraph tag inside the cell. As a result, the cells that contain the text are centered, but the cells that contain the images for the bullets are not.

To work around this problem and center a bulleted list on a page that uses themes, follow these steps:

1. On the Table menu, click Insert Table.
2. In the Insert Table dialog box, set the following values:

   
       Item                  Value
       -------------------------------
       Rows                  1
       Columns               1
       Alignment             Center
       Border Size           0
       Cell Padding          0
       Cell Spacing          0
       Specify Width         Unchecked
   
   						

3. Click OK.
4. Click to select the bulleted list.
5. On the Edit menu, click Cut.
6. Click inside the newly created table.
7. On the Edit menu, click Paste.

You will not see the table tags if you look at a page that uses picture bullets in HTML view. To see the HTML, you will need to either preview the page in your browser and view source, or click the preview tab, right-click the document and choose view source, or open the file with a text editor. FrontPage masks the complexity of picture bullets from HTML view and displays them as simple unordered list tags <UL>.