| Depr. | Version |
|---|---|
| No | HTML 4 |
| IE5.5+ | FF1+ | SA1.3+ | OP9.2+ | CH2+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
Syntax
Description
The usual alignment that
browsers apply to content inside td elements is
"left", but you can override that using the
align attribute. You’re better off to use CSS to
set the text alignment (you could also apply
the align attribute to the parent
tr element, rather than repeating it for each
cell in the row, but CSS is still the best option).
Example
Here, the browser default alignment
of "left" in the td is overridden to
align the content "right":
<tr> <td align="right">Fred</td> <td align="right">fred@megacorp.com</td> <td align="right">123456</td> <td rowspan="2" align="right">1/A</td> </tr>
Value
The recognized attribute values are as shown in the syntax section.
Compatibility
| Internet Explorer | Firefox | Safari | Opera | Chrome | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 9.2 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 2.0 |
| Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
It causes no
compatibility issues, and has excellent support across all tested browsers
(with the exception of the "char" attribute value).
Browser support shows full, as the failure for character-specific
alignment is placed on the char attribute rather
than the align
attribute.
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