[OpenLayers-Users] Displaying a text message

[Richard Jones]

I would like to display a 2-line textual message in the *center* of the browser window. This would either be written across the map, or across the empty browser window (if I choose to make the map invisible) using a particular font and point/pixel size.

Is there a simply way to do this?

The only reference I can find to text is the "label" used on point features. I know that I can set a point in the exact center of the viewport and set the label text, but I can't see a way to have the text display with center justification which would be more aesthetically pleasing than starting at a particular X pixel position. It might be possible to set a pixel position if there was a way of measuring the horizontal pixel extent  of a line of text, but I can't see a way of doing that.

If point labels are the only way to display text, then does anyone have any ideas how this might be accomplished?