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    copied!<p>I have this code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;table class="table"&gt; &lt;thead&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;1&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;1&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;1&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;1&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;2&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;2&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;2&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;2&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;3&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;3&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;3&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;3&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;4&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;4&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;4&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;4&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;5&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;5&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;5&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;5&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;6&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;6&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;6&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;6&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;7&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;7&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;7&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;7&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/thead&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="4"&gt;Lorem&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td colspan="4"&gt;ipsum&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td colspan="4"&gt;dolor&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td colspan="4"&gt;sit&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td colspan="4"&gt;amet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td colspan="4"&gt;Lorem&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td colspan="4"&gt;ipsum&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;​ @import url('http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/css/bootstrap.css'); table, thead, tr, tbody, th, td { text-align: center; } </code></pre> <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/JeCpZ/" rel="noreferrer">Fiddle</a></p> <p>For some reason, The text inside the table still is not centered. Why? How do I center the text inside the table?</p> <p>To make it really Clear: For example, I want "Lorem" to sit in the middle of the four "1". ​</p>
 

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