260328 - CSS text-align: center aligns everything except <table>

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 167685

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Peter Dey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Code example:

<div id="blah">
  hello world
  <table>
    <tr><th>xyz</th></tr>
    <tr><td>abc</td></tr>
  </table>
  goodbye world
</div>

CSS:
#blah {
  text-align: center;
}

Firefox will render the text in the centre of the DIV, but not the table (it's
left aligned)...


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Screenshots:
http://www.realmtech.net/images/TableCentre_Firefox.gif
http://www.realmtech.net/images/TableCentre_IE.gif


Expected Results:  
Align the table in the centre of the DIV.

Comment 1

[Bernd]

>text-align: center aligns everything except <table>, maybee thats because its
named  text-align and not table-align. Please read the CSS2.1 spec what will be
align with text-align and how to center a table. (ref:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/propidx.html)

Comment 2

[Bernd]

sorry for being rude in my last comment. 
Now comes the political correct version:
Thank you for your bug report, but is invalid. Please continue to report bugs
you find in the layout engine. Reading the corresponding sections in CSS2.1
might help to prevent wasting your time on a bug report.

Comment 3

[Christopher Curzio]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167685 ***