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Supreme Overlord · 07-31-2009, 10:53 PM

I have a table in dreamweaver and I want to centre all the text in all the cells. The alignment is currently set to default and the text is aligned left. The table is within a div tag but when I give the div tag the CSS property of text alignment centre, the cells don't align centre. perhaps I don't understand how inheriting in CSS works so any help work be appreciated.

Ix · 07-31-2009, 11:28 PM

If you're going to be using a table anyway, why don't you just select all the cells and center them? Otherwise, give your table an ID <table id="bob"> and in your CSS specify the text alignment for the cells.

<style type="text/css">
#bob {text-align: center}
</style>

07-31-2009, 10:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
Supreme Overlord Status: Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1	Centering text in html and css? I have a table in dreamweaver and I want to centre all the text in all the cells. The alignment is currently set to default and the text is aligned left. The table is within a div tag but when I give the div tag the CSS property of text alignment centre, the cells don't align centre. perhaps I don't understand how inheriting in CSS works so any help work be appreciated.

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07-31-2009, 11:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
Ix Status: Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2	If you're going to be using a table anyway, why don't you just select all the cells and center them? Otherwise, give your table an ID <table id="bob"> and in your CSS specify the text alignment for the cells. <style type="text/css"> #bob {text-align: center} </style>