How to center copyrights text in subfooter? - php

Question

I'm using wordpress and the theme is Newspaper. I want to center the copyrights text but I don't know how. I have checked the theme panel settings and there's no options to edit that.
Theme panel pic:
I have gone through some answers in the web and they suggested adding codes in the editor but I'm not sure if it's the footer.php or style.css. If the latter, I managed to find the part regarding sub-footer:
Sub Footer
*/
.td-sub-footer-container {
background-color: #0d0d0d;
color: #ccc;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif;
/* responsive portrait phone */
}
#media (max-width: 767px) {
.td-sub-footer-container {
text-align: center;
padding: 6px 0;
}
}
.td-sub-footer-copy {
line-height: 18px;
margin-top: 8px;
margin-bottom: 8px;
}
/* Sub Footer Menu */
.td-sub-footer-container .td-sub-footer-menu {
float: right;
/* responsive portrait phone */
}
#media (max-width: 767px) {
.td-sub-footer-container .td-sub-footer-menu {
float: none;
}
}
.td-subfooter-menu {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0;
float: right;
/* responsive landscape tablet */
/* responsive landscape tablet */
/* responsive portrait tablet */
/* responsive portrait phone */
}
#media (min-width: 1019px) and (max-width: 1140px) {
.td-subfooter-menu {
padding-right: 40px;
}
}
#media (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1018px) {
.td-subfooter-menu {
padding-right: 48px;
}
}
#media (max-width: 767px) {
.td-subfooter-menu {
float: none;
}
}
.td-subfooter-menu li {
display: inline-block;
margin-left: 0;
}
.td-subfooter-menu li a {
margin-right: 16px;
line-height: 34px;
display: inline-block;
color: #ccc;
}
.td-subfooter-menu li a:hover {
color: #4db2ec;
}
.td-subfooter-menu li:last-child a {
margin-right: 0;
}
.td-subfooter-menu ul {
display: none;
}

Answer 1

Thank you for such depth! Here's some CSS you need to add:
.td-pb-span5.td-sub-footer-copy {
float: none;
text-align: center;
margin:0 auto;
}
The reason why you need this is because your subfooter is following some rules that are already established for the rest of your page:
.td-pb-row [class*="td-pb-span"] {
display: block;
min-height: 1px;
float: left;
padding-right: 24px;
padding-left: 24px;
position: relative;
}
Simply removing the immediately above CSS will 'break' the rest of your page's layout.
Edit, to answer comment question:
Apologies, here's a bit more information:
When CSS is being applied to an element that is already being styled by a different selector's rules, there's a calculation of specificity. The CSS I've given you will be fine on its own if added, however, if you'd like to add it to the selector you already have, .sub-footer-copy, then you'd have to add !important to override your already written CSS, like so:
td.sub-footer-copy{
float: none !important;
text-align: center;
margin: 0 auto;
}
This is because the selector .td-pb-row [class*="td-pb-span"] is more specific than the selector .sub-footer-copy. Here's some further reading on this:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity
Also, I'd like to note that the selector .td-pb-row [class*="td-pb-span"] is an attribute selector referring to a CSS class, so it is similar to .td-pb-row .td-pb-span