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Subject: Re: Re: Aligning Columns in HTML Export Tables
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To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>, Org-mode ml <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>

On 10/20/10 7:16 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Jeff Horn<jrhorn424@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> Is there a way to specify a particular column in org-mode that will be
>> exported right-aligned in HTML?
>>
>> | A | B | C |
>> | 1 | 2 | 3 |
>>
>> For the table above, I would like column C right aligned when I export
>> to HTML, but the other column aligned in the default way (left
>> aligned?).
>
> I think this is supposed to work but it seems the exporters do not
> honour the alignment details.
>
> |<l>  |<l>  |<r>  |
> | A   | B   |   C |
> | 1   | 2   |   3 |
> | 12  | 13  | 300 |
> | 9   | 11  |   4 |
>

That's what I find. Ironically, the HTML exporter even includes a 
=colgroup= with a local =align= attribute set on each =col=, but they 
all get set to ~align="right"~ despite the settings in the table. Not 
that it matters; e.g. Firefox doesn't honor colgroup formatting anyway.

As a CSS workaround for this particular example, you could add this to 
the header lines:

: #+style: <style>tr td + td + td {text-align: right;}</style>

-- but it would clearly be nicer if the exporter honored the settings.

Yours,
CM