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Subject:Re: Decimal point alignment in HTML Tables From:Janet Valade <janetv -at- SYSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 26 May 1999 15:38:43 -0700
<<Other than putting all the numbers hard left or hard right, is
there a way to
> align entries in a column of table cells by their decimal points in HTML?
> That is, if I have a column containing individual cells of 3.00, 200.00
> and
> 70.00, with a total cell at the bottom of 273.00, can I make it look nice
> and
> tidy?>>
>
Theoretically, yes. There are two attributes (char, charoff) that
you can use with TD and TR to specify a character that the text will be
aligned on, e.g., a period, and to specify an offset to the character.
However, these attributes are new in HTML 4 and I don't know if any of the
browsers support them yet.
Janet
Janet Valade
Technical Writer
Systech Corp, San Diego, CA mailto:janetv -at- systech -dot- com
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