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POWhy should I not use deprecated align='right' for numbers on an TD (table cell)?
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I am referring to the usage a table for showing tabular data, eg: a spreadsheet, focusing on numbers, that I feel <a href="https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/24073">and see in UX</a> that should be right aligned, properly formatted (with same number of decimals) to facilitate sums. For numbers this looks like a borderline case between semantics and formatting, for other kind of data types like dates choosing an alignment is more arbitrary. I of course agree in using css when possible but css is not always supported or enabled and I see reasons to use align='right' since it gives decent default for when there is no support for css. This happens for example in <a href="http://postimg.org/image/512asz7tt/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">my version of Lynx</a> or when a browser user disables css to print. Speculation: perhaps a more semantic attribute like <td number='true'> could do the work also if seen how problematic are <pre><code> <input type='number'> </code></pre> in HTML5 <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/13416324/1536382">in respect to localization</a> I would just expect from it to align on right. I remember also at some point in time was <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3491593/how-to-override-td-align-center">difficult to override</a> align attribute with css (and I remember css designers asking me to remove it from HTML) but this <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/yTXA4/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">seems not true (anymore?) now</a> Am I missing something ? I am personally generating align='right' for numbers in my html. My main question is: is there any reason except the fact that is deprecated to not use ALIGN='right' for properly formatted numbers on an HTML TD ? Thanks.
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