We can assign margin: auto; style to a block element to center it. By default, equal spaces will be added above and below the text, and you’ll get a vertically centered text. For example, we can recreate the table from the example at the top of this page with CSS instead of the align attribute.

The following article provides an outline for Vertical Table HTML. Do not use it. With margins. The attribute is used with the HTML tag, with the CSS property text-align.

Because centering is a visual characteristic of an element (how it looks rather than what it is), that style is handled with CSS, not HTML.

If you want your table to be a certain percentage width, you can do this: Centering a block or image. Add some width and height to the div element and align text horizontally center also. To center align text in table cells, use the CSS property text-align. You can only use an id once on a page. "text-align: center" is there for Internet Explorer, which won't work without it.

You also need to use display:table-cell property of CSS to make text vertically center. 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:

The text-align will be used for the tag.We’re using the style attribute for adding CSS. If you want your table to be of fixed width, define your CSS like this: So, use CSS to align text in table cells. HTML5 do not support the align tag,Just keep in mind, the usage of style attribute overrides any style set globally. In HTML Table, each new record is inserted as rows and columns in Database.

Set "width:100px" to whatever width you need. However, it's not so obvious how to center a table using CSS.

The tag align attribute was used before, but HTML5 deprecated the attribute. The obvious way might appear to use the CSS "text-align: center;" somewhere, maybe like one of these: Internet Explorer 5.5 and up, however, needs you to add this to your CSS as well: Justify and char could also be used, but were used much less frequently. How to fix: The align attribute on the td element is obsolete.

Introduction to Vertical Table HTML.

If you are familiar with the CSS code then this shouldn’t need more explanation.

< style > .aligncenter { text-align: center; } I used the text-align: center; CSS property to do the job. 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. Instead of using the align attribute the CSS property text-align should be used. Add the line-height property to the element containing a text larger than its font size. At this point, Mozilla and Opera will center your table. To make text horizontally center, you have to use text-align:center. It will override any style set in the HTML