301116 - giving colgroup and/or col elements properties like align or css text-align has no effect

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 915

(Core :: Layout: Tables, enhancement)

Description

[Bastian Grupe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0+

According to the HTML4 spec, <col align="right"> for example should align the
text in the given col right. WFM in MSIE, Opera, doesn't work with Gecko browsers.

Using CSS text-align doesn't work either.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a table with a col giving it align="center" OR: CSS text-align: center

Actual Results:  
The column contents are aligned left (the default).

Expected Results:  
The column contents are centered.

This helps writing less code and more semantic code.

Comment 1

[Bastian Grupe]

Attachment: Modified w3 sample table

I modified the W3 sample table (see URL) and added CSS text-align to
demonstrate that the CSS approach doesn't work either.

Comment 2

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 915 ***