<!DOCTYPE HTML>
Place in HEAD tag (CHARSET is one among of defined by http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets):
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=CHARSET">
or in HTML 5:
<meta charset="utf-8">
See:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.2.2
To center block-level element:
<div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; position: relative; width: 700px;"> <div>SOME</div> </div>
To center inline element:
<p style="text-align: center;">TEXT</p>