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    <p>To my surprise I just found out that applying text-alignment to a table column is fairly bad supported in current browsers. Neither Firefox 3.5.2, Safari 4.0.3 or IE8 shows the "amount" column below as right aligned.</p> <p>HTML:</p> <pre><code>&lt;table class="full_width"&gt; &lt;caption&gt;Listing employees of department X&lt;/caption&gt; &lt;col&gt;&lt;/col&gt; &lt;col&gt;&lt;/col&gt; &lt;col&gt;&lt;/col&gt; &lt;col class="amount" width="180"&gt;&lt;/col&gt; &lt;thead&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Name&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Phone number&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Email&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Salary&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/thead&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;John Doe&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;+45 2373 6220&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;john@doe.com&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;20000&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>CSS</p> <pre><code>.amount{ text-align: right; } </code></pre> <p>Why isn't this working? Also I tried (via firebug) to turn off Firefox' native rule that left-aligns TD elements, but that didn't work either.</p> <p>I can see that setting background color rule in the amount css class actually works. So I know that the .amount class is applied to all columns:</p> <p>CSS</p> <pre><code>.amount{ text-align: right; background-color: aqua; } </code></pre> <p>The CSS 2 spec apparently says that only four attributes are supported by col element -- see <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1119106/why-is-styling-table-columns-not-allowed">Why is styling table columns not allowed?</a></p> <p>Criteria for selecting the best solution: must be supported fairly cross-browser (not necessarily in IE6 where I could live with using jquery or a conditional comment to include a specific solution). Also, I expect to apply multiple classes multiple different columns (ie. <code>class="amount before_tax"</code>) </p> <p>I'd hate to set classes on the relevant td in each row. What are my options?</p>
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