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How To Write Some Text in a Horizontal Rule?

 
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I would like to have something similar to a horizontal rule (with certain height, of course) and show some text in it?

Do I really use <HR size=30, aligh="center">? How do I write some text in it?
 
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you can't write text in it...

best you can do would be

 
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I have seen in web pages that there is a horizontal bar with a color; say, green. And there is some text in the bar with another colore; say, yellow. How is it been done?
 
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IMAGE or the way I did it??
 
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Can we use this?

 
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I guess you could use <s> or <strike> if you want the line through the text rather than wanting the line to break around the text. You could even use a combination of strike and NBSP but it's messy. Note that <strike> is deprecated in HTML 4 in favour of the CSS text-decoration: line-through style.

Eric's method is cleanest as it uses HTML 4 and CSS and no table for layout.

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But, according to Eric's method, the line is not through the text. The line breaks around the text.
 
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If you want the line through the text then use <strike> with HTML 3.2 or style="text-decoration: line-through;" with HTML 4 or XHTML.

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