Posted by Barbara de Zoete on 11/18/05 12:22

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:08:44 +0100, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
wrote:

> "Stefan" <stefan.haier@web.de> wrote:
>
>> does anyone know, how to make a Tabstop at the decimal-point like Word
>> can do?
>
> Basically, you don't, but you can simulate it if you are willing to
> do some extra work. All methods are more or less awkward, and the method
> defined in the HTML specifications does _not_ work.

Looking at:
- on text alignment, general:
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html#propdef-text-align>
- on text alignment in table columns:
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#column-alignment>
- on strings as property values:
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#strings>

Is there any browser that implements the CSS2 style [ td { text-align:"."
} ] correctly? It is not that hard to imagine that, especially with
tabular data, one would like the numeric values of one column aligned at
the decimal-point. People have been doing that since book-keeping was
invented or before. :-)

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