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Asked: 2026-05-18T08:30:38+00:00

This html: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd> <html> <head><title>TD align test</title></head> <body>

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This html:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head><title>TD align test</title></head>
<body>
<table width="100%">
  <tr><td>aligned left</td><td align="right">aligned right</td></tr>
  <tr><td colspan="2" align="center">
    <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      <tr><td>should be aligned left</td></tr>
    </table>
  </td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

aligns the “should be aligned left” centered in IE (6 & 8) and Opera, but to the left in Firefox (3.6 & 4 beta) and Chromium. The former seem to propagate the alignment from the td to the contained table.

Can anyone explain this difference? And which behavior is more standards-compliant?

(You can try it at http://ysth.info/tdalign.html.)

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can have a look at http://www.docsteve.com/DocSteve/TechNotes/IE6_cascade_test.html for why it might be happening.

    The fact is that it is another IE glitch (incompatibility with other browsers) . Only thing i can suggest is to override it, by explicitly specifying the alignment you want..

    If you use classes and the text-align:center you will notice that all browsers behave as IE does with the align attribute, so not sure which is correct/wrong with that.

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