an html query

[john harding]

Can anyone see a reason why the <h1> </h1> in lines 7 and 8 is not applying?

[NormanRouxel]

I doubt that anyone can answer this without being able to inspect a live page.

[john harding]

The page is at www.ourtext.co.uk

[NormanRouxel]

All H1 tags are being styled by code in actinic.css:

h1 {
    color: #8a8455;
    font-size: 16px;
    font-weight: 900;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 16px 0 4px;
}

You probably don't want to alter this as it will affect other H1 tags throughought the site.

You'll need to add a classname to your H1 tag and add some styles for said class to the bottom of Design / Current Stylesheet.

Or, if this is a temporary message, just use some kludgy inline style. E.g:

<h1 style="text-align:center; color:red; font-size:20px">You may find we have nipped out for a bit.</h1>

Which also solves your attempt at spacing via lots of &nbsp; characters.