Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 11/18/05 15:33

"Barbara de Zoete" <b_de_zoete@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any browser that implements the CSS2 style [ td { text-align:"."
> } ] correctly?

No. At least no browser worth mentioning. It's as hopeless as trying to
use align="char" in HTML.

> 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. :-)

Certainly, but they seem to have become incapable of doing so on web pages.
Even columns with integers aren't usually aligned to the right, making tables
often _quite_ weird-looking.

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