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Learn more about Labs How to center the contents of an HTML table? Ask Question Asked 12 years, 11 months ago Modified 9 months ago Viewed 1.2m times 361

I am using an HTML <table> and I want to align the text of <td> to the center in each cell.

How do I center align the text horizontally and vertically?

• html
• css
• html-table

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Here is an example with CSS and inline style attributes:

td { height: 50px; width: 50px; } #cssTable td { text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; } <table border="1"> <tr> <td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Text</td> <td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Text</td> </tr> </table> <table border="1" id="cssTable"> <tr> <td>Text</td> <td>Text</td> </tr> </table>

http://jsfiddle.net/j2h3xo9k/

EDIT: The valign attribute is deprecated in HTML5 and should not be used.

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• 1 Isn't the vertical-align:middle supposed to be applied to the tr element? – posfan12 Commented Jun 10, 2018 at 9:00
• 2 If you put an img tag in the same td didnt work – IgniteCoders Commented Jul 16, 2020 at 18:45
• @posfan12 TLDR: no. Explanation: td elements (under normal circumstances) have the same height as their parent tr element, so changing the vertical alignment css property of the tr element will do nothing at all. There is no "available" space above or below the td elements. – Skeets Commented Sep 7, 2022 at 5:55

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The CSS to center text in your td elements is

td { text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; } Share Improve this answer Follow edited Sep 8, 2022 at 11:50 Lee Goddard 11.1k55 gold badges5050 silver badges6868 bronze badges answered Jan 24, 2012 at 11:48 CarstenCarsten 18.4k44 gold badges5151 silver badges5555 bronze badges Add a comment | 55

HTML in line styling example:

<td style='text-align:center; vertical-align:middle'></td>

CSS file example:

td { text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; } Share Improve this answer Follow edited Feb 10, 2021 at 0:08 Brandon Andre 1744 bronze badges answered Jan 24, 2012 at 11:49 Hayden ThringHayden Thring 1,7901717 silver badges2626 bronze badges Add a comment | 43

Try to put this in your CSS file.

td { text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; } Share Improve this answer Follow edited Sep 8, 2022 at 11:50 Lee Goddard 11.1k55 gold badges5050 silver badges6868 bronze badges answered Jan 24, 2012 at 11:47 BorisBoris 74988 silver badges2222 bronze badges Add a comment | 20 <td align="center" valign="center">textgoeshere</td>

Is the only correct answer imho, since you're working with tables which is old functionality most common used for e-mail formatting. So your best bet is to not use just style but inline style and known table tags.

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• 12 valign is deprecated in HTML5. Do not use it. For email formatting, a style tag or an inline style attribute would be the best solution. – Sean the Bean Commented Jun 11, 2018 at 15:02

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Selector > child:

.text-center-row>th, .text-center-row>td { text-align: center; } <table border="1" width='500px'> <tr class="text-center-row"> <th>Text</th> <th>Text</th> <th>Text</th> <th>Text</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Text</td> <td>Text</td> <td>Text</td> <td>Text</td> </tr> <tr class="text-center-row"> <td>Text</td> <td>Text</td> <td>Text</td> <td>Text</td> </tr> </table>

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If you are using Bootstrap, you can use inbuilt class

<table class="text-center align-middle"> Share Improve this answer Follow answered Sep 24, 2021 at 5:34 MohitGhodasaraMohitGhodasara 2,71211 gold badge2424 silver badges2929 bronze badges Add a comment | 1

td { height: 50px; width: 50px; } #cssTable td { text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; } <table border="1"> <tr> <td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Text</td> <td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Text</td> </tr> </table> <table border="1" id="cssTable"> <tr> <td>Text</td> <td>Text</td> </tr> </table>

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The following worked for me to vertically align content (multi-line) in a list-table

.. list-table:: :class: longtable :header-rows: 1 :stub-columns: 1 :align: left :widths: 20, 20, 20, 20, 20 * - Classification - Restricted - Company |br| Confidential - Internal Use Only - Public * - Row1 col1 - Row1 col2 - Row1 col3 - Row1 col4 - Row1 col5

Using theme overrides .css option I defined:

.stub { text-align: left; vertical-align: top; }

In the theme that I use 'python-docs-theme', the cell entry is defined as 'stub' class. Use your browser development menu to inspect what your theme class is for cell content and update that accordingly.

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<td align="center"valign="center">textgoeshere</td>

more on valign

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• 15 valign attribute is not supported in HTML5. Use CSS instead. – T30 Commented Feb 20, 2014 at 10:02
• align attribute is not supported in HTML 5. You have to use CSS instead. – Asiqur Rahman Commented Aug 2, 2022 at 10:58

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