help: trying to center a button in a text widget
 

What is the best way to center, or otherwise align, pad, marginate (a word?) the contents of a text widget? I've inserted an "<a href=" link ref for the button into the text widget and the button is crammed all the way over against the left side of the widget.

Sort of in conjunction with the above: I am right in assuming that CSS changes done in the "Theme Options" CSS Inserts are stored in the WP database and should therefore survive either a WP or Atahualpa update?

Would setting up a "child theme" CSS file be an option? All my CSS changes/additions could be placed in the "child".css

I hope the above doesn't make it sound too much like I know what I'm doing.

Tnx Jim

Try to wrap it into a container like this

and put that into the text widget. As you can see I just used an inline style here because for a single style of a div that's used only once it might be too much trouble to add a CSS Insert just for that.

Of course if you want to add more styles or even use that container multiple times, adding the styles through CSS Inserts would be better. Do do that, you'd give the container a class of any name

and insert the style as CSS Insert
To center that box inside the widget as well (and not just the content inside that box), give it a defined width, and a left and right margin of "auto"

Yes, CSS Inserts would be preserved as they are saved in the WP database.

Thank you, Flynn! Sorry I'm so late with the thanks. Life on the farm sort of got in the way.