Center A Table With CSS - Scott Granneman

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The old way to center a table was easy:

<table align="center"> ... </table>

The "align" attribute has been deprecated, however, in favor of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and this is a good thing. However, it's not so obvious how to center a table using CSS.

The obvious way might appear to use the CSS "text-align: center;" somewhere, maybe like one of these:

<table style="text-align:center;">

OR

<div style="text-align:center;"> <table> ... </table> </div>

OR, if you get really desperate,

<body style="text-align:center;"> <table> ... </table> </body>

None of these will work. The table itself will be left-aligned, but all the content in the table cells will be centered.

Why? Because "text-align" applies to inline content, not to a block-level element like "table".

Method 1

To center a table, you need to set the margins, like this:

table.center { margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; }

And then do this:

<table class="center"> ... </table>

At this point, Mozilla and Opera will center your table. Internet Explorer 5.5 and up, however, needs you to add this to your CSS as well:

body {text-align:center;}

Method 2

If you want your table to be a certain percentage width, you can do this:

table#table1 { width:70%; margin-left:15%; margin-right:15%; }

And then in your HTML/XHTML, you would do this:

<table id="table1"> ... </table>

Note that I was using an id to describe the table. You can only use an id once on a page. If you had many tables on a page that you wanted to be the same width and centered, you would do this in your CSS:

table.center { width:70%; margin-left:15%; margin-right:15%; }

And this in your HTML:

<table class="center"> ... </table> <table class="center"> ... </table>

Method 3

If you want your table to be of fixed width, define your CSS like this:

div.container { width:98%; margin:1%; } table#table1 { text-align:center; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:100px; } tr,td {text-align:left;}

Set "width:100px" to whatever width you need.

"text-align: center" is there for Internet Explorer, which won't work without it. Unfortunately, "text-align: center" will center all the text inside your table cells, but we counter that by setting "tr" and "td" to align left.

In your HTML, you would then do this:

<div class="container"> <table id="table1"> ... </table> </div>

Once again, I'm using an id. If you need to center several tables the same way, use a class instead of an id.

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