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-as in title, how to align text to the right?
+As in title, how to align text to the right?
 
 > Add to your local.css a class that aligns text to the right:
 
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 > by using the [[ikiwiki/directive/template]]
 > directive, with a template that contains the html. The 
 > [[templates/note]] template does something similar. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Thanks!
+
+-----
+> Doing this myself and noted that [[ikiwiki/markdown]] down does not allow the enclosure of block level elements directly; and thus we cannot switch the `span` suggested above for `div` in changing block level elements (not if you wish to include markdown, anyway).  For example, I want to create a paragraph (with markdown text) which is right aligned, and so add the following
+
+>>     <span class="right_align">
+>>     This is my text with [a markdown link](/)
+>>     </span>
+
+> The *correct* thing to do here is create a template (as indicated above) **but** a workaround I found useful was to over-ride the `inline` nature of the `span` element, as follows
+
+>>     .align_right { display: block ; text-align: right ; }
+
+> you may also like to remove the padding and margins since they will be provided by the enclosing block. -- fergus