Span align question

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Hi everyone,

I want to add some text to the same line in the postbit legacy template which contains the post date and post number. I've found the right location and the code I need works but I can't get it to align properly. Here's a picture of what it looks like now.



First I tried:

<span style="color: #a22547; text-transform: uppercase; 
font-weight: bold;text-align=center">
</span>

but that ended up with the text appearing right next to the date. So for now the only thing I could think of was adding manual spaces in html a few times to create some kind of gap for now. This is a horrible method though and obviously I can't use this as a solution so any ideas as to how I can align this text "Thread Author" in the center of the text box?