How to make text vertically and horizontally center in an HTML page

Centering horizontally is easy - centering vertically is a bit tricky in css as it's not really supported (besides table cells <td>, which is bad style for layouting unless a table is really needed as - well - a table). But you can use semantically correct html tags and apply table display properties to it.

That's one possible solution - there are many approaches, here is a good article on that.

In your case something like that should be sufficient:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="de">
    <head>
        <title>Hello World</title>
        <style>

        html, body {
            height: 100%;
            margin: 0;
            padding: 0;
            width: 100%;
        }

        body {
            display: table;
        }

        .my-block {
            text-align: center;
            display: table-cell;
            vertical-align: middle;
        }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div class="my-block">
       WORD1<br />
       WORDWORDWORDWORD2
    </div>
    </body>
</html>

You can put the text inside a <div> and align the text using CSS :

<div style="text-align:center;">
    WORD1<br />
    WORDWORDWORDWORD2
</div>

the <div> is a block element which means it will be stretched to 100% width and the text will be in in the center of the page

jsFiddle example

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