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<col> in Mozilla

Sent by J. King on 1 December 2003 22:10


On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:29:07 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-2] Miroslav Å ulc wrote:
>>
>> I would like to ask about this Mozilla issue.
>> My code follows
>>
>> [...]
>> #tab col.number{
>> 	text-align:right;
>> 	width:10em;
>> }
>> [...]
>
> 'text-align' does not apply to columns. See:
>
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q4
>

I've always wondered why that is.  Is there a technical reason I'm not 
aware of, Ian?  The HTML 4 spec uses more than one align="" example[1], 
which suggests that horizontal alignment of columns should be possible, 
but it's not allowed in CSS.  I find this somewhat perplexing.

[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.3.2>
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J. King
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