79932 - Text-align CSS1 Property

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 49274

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[swilliams]

I am not sure weather this is a bug or not but I can't find out any more info.

When I have a table in side a cell I want to set the outer cell with the tex-
align: center tag so the table  inside it will site centered. THis is not 
happening at all and is always positioned to the left. I have even tried using 
div tags surrounding the table and also <p> tags but nothing works. The only 
way I seem to be able to do it is place either <center> or <div align="center"> 
around the table but I want to use a css tag..

Is this a bug or is it just not standard. I can't find anything out weather 
tables in a cell can be align using text-align...

Comment 1

[Alexey Chernyak]

marking this INVALID

text-align property applies to block-level elements and affects their inline
content.
Tables are not inline content. Tables are block elements. So they are not
affected by this.

In order to center a block-level element with CSS, apply "margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;" to it.

for example:

table, caption {
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

VERIFIED

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Reopening to mark dup of another invalid bug for recordkeeping.

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 49274 ***

Comment 5

[Wesha]

v.