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Text and headings should be flush left

K-State webpage standards use a variety of typographical treatments for text and headings.  The K-State standard is to start both text and headings at the left margin.

Accordingly, text and headings should not be centered, flush right, or justified.

As a left-to-right language, scanning English centered and flush right text is more difficult because location of the beginning of the lines changes.

Problem examples

This is a centered heading

This is a flush right heading

This is a paragraph of centered text.  This is a paragraph of centered text.  This is a paragraph of centered text.  This is a paragraph of centered text.  This is a paragraph of centered text.  This is a paragraph of centered text.  This is a paragraph of centered text.  This is a paragraph of centered text.

This is a paragraph of fully-justified text.  This is a paragraph of fully-justified text.  This is a paragraph of fully-justified text.  This is a paragraph of fully-justified text.  This is a paragraph of fully-justified text.  This is a paragraph of fully-justified text.  This is a paragraph of fully-justified text.  This is a paragraph of fully-justified text.  

To fix this error

Left-justify both text and headings.

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