Re: [Orgmode] Re: Aligning Columns in HTML Export Tables

[Baoqiu Cui]

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> Baoqiu,
>
> (or any other users of the docbook exporter)
> I am not sure if the docbook format has suffered from this change,
> could you please run a few tests involving tables and report back?

Thanks for supporting this new feature.  DocBook exporter does not
really suffer from this change, but it does not benefit from it either.
After checking the documentation of DocBook and HTML table, it seems
that using the "class" attribute in <td> elements for alignment is not
the best solution.  Attribute "align" is officially supported by DocBook
and HTML based on the following two links:

  1. http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/html.td.html
  2. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.3.2

If I change "class" to "align" in the following lines, the same table
can be recognized by both Firefox and DocBook.  I am wondering if there
is any special reason to use "class" instead of "align".  If not, can we
change the elisp code to use "align"?

<tbody>
<tr><td class="left">A</td><td class="left">B</td><td class="right">C</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">1</td><td class="left">2</td><td class="right">3</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">12</td><td class="left">13</td><td 
class="right">300</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">9</td><td class="left">11</td><td class="right">4</td></tr>
</tbody>

Thanks!

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Baoqiu