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Subject: Re: Bug: Table alignment [8.2.10 (release_8.2.10 @
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Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> writes:

> When I looked at the resulting html, it looked fine:
>     <th scope="col" class="left">Math Department</th>
> But then I checked the css code, which is given by the value of 
> `org-html-style-default' in ox-html.el:
>
>   th.right  { text-align: center;  }
>   th.left   { text-align: center;   }
>   th.center { text-align: center; }
>   td.right  { text-align: right;  }
>   td.left   { text-align: left;   }
>   td.center { text-align: center; }

Indeed that looks weird.  It seems to be a stylistic hack to have
*headers* always centered.  I have no clue why.

> (It's this way in emacs 24.5 and the latest development version of emacs.)
> Easy to change locally, but am I missing something, or should
> `org-html-style-default' have
>
>   th.right  { text-align: right;  }
>   th.left   { text-align: left;   }
>   th.center { text-align: center; }
>   td.right  { text-align: right;  }
>   td.left   { text-align: left;   }
>   td.center { text-align: center; }

I guess it should, but I don't know the rational for the always-centering
of headers. . .  If we imposed that change headlines of tables with no
instructions would no longer be centered as they default to the "left"
class.  This could be an issue if this is a good default style...

—Rasmus

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