I am trying to set similar style for all tds in an html table like below:
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; direction: ltr;">1</td>
<td style="text-align: right; direction: ltr;">2</td>
<td style="text-align: right; direction: ltr;">3</td>
.
.
.
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Is there a way I can define the text within all these tds to be aligned right and directed to the left without the need of repeating the same for each cell? I know I can do this in a css file by somehow defining an Id or class, but is there a way I can do it within the same html file?
the following css will apply text align to all cells of all tables on your page. if you want it to be individually per table, set the table an ID or Class and apply the following code to it:
table td{
text-align: right;
}
to include it in the same html file, simply add it within a style block in your head section of the html:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.MyTable td {
width:100px;
border:1px solid purple;
text-align: right !important; /*this attribute will be forced*/
direction: ltr;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table class="MyTable">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
You can add class="right" to your <td> elements and then define the following CSS class:
.right {
text-align: right;
}
You can rename the class and/or add any other properties (like direction etc.).
If you wish to make this without any additional markups in your HTML code, you can create the following CSS class:
table td:nth-child(2) {
text-align: right;
}
This will align your 2nd column in your table to the right. If you wish to change the column number, just change the number in the parasintesis.
Related
I am using HTML and CSS to display sentences aligned with word-by-word IPA transcriptions:
<table>
<tr class="eng">
<td>This </td>
<td>is</td>
<td>an</td>
<td>example</td>
<td>sentence.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ipa">
<td>ðɪs</td>
<td>ɪz</td>
<td>ən</td>
<td>ɪɡˈzæmpl̩</td>
<td>ˈsɛntəns</td>
</tr>
</table>
tr.eng {
font-weight: bold;
}
tr.ipa {
font-style: italic;
}
td {
white-space: nowrap;
text-align: center;
}
.eng td:first-child {
text-align: left;
}
.eng td:last-child {
text-align: right;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/2ab9pgmd/
If a sentence is too long for the screen, I would like both rows to wrap to a new line, so that it could look like following hard-coded example:
<table>
<tr class="eng">
<td>This </td>
<td>is</td>
<td>an</td>
<td>example</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ipa">
<td>ðɪs</td>
<td>ɪz</td>
<td>ən</td>
<td>ɪɡˈzæmpl̩</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr class="eng">
<td>sentence.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ipa">
<td>ˈsɛntəns</td>
</tr>
</table>
Is it possible to set up an HTML table to wrap multiple rows to new lines dynamically depending on the screen size, rather than manually defining the line lengths in advance?
I found a similar example of what I would like to do here, but this solution does not keep the columns aligned for tables with more than one row.
If possible, I would rather not use JavaScript so the text can be viewed as an eBook.
I prefer you go with the CSS Grid cause when you use table row for wrapping it wont get wrapped up and wont provide you the desired output . You can add wrapping rules but I don't think it will work.
http://codepen.io/louisverdiguel/pen/vCJFh
this is my first time here i hope i am doing it right.
html
I have created a string of rows and columns with html for a client to "resemble" a spreadsheet.
CSS
I have created a css class class="sale td"
within the class .
.sale td {border: 1px solid grey; }
to have a border show for each row
issue: i would like to remove the border from any <tr> that contains a <h2> tag
how would i go about creating such a specific class or action with the CSS and what is this method called?
You can try like this: LINK
CSS:
.sale tr.no_border td {
border: 0px !important;
}
HTML:
<tr class="no_border">
<td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"><h2>Bottles</h2></td>
</tr>
You can only try to add style tag to each row, for which you want to remove the border.
For example:
<td colspan="4" align="left" valign="top" style="border:none;">
You can't go backwards like that setting styles for a tag based on tags inside it. You have to mark the tr/td with a class if it contains a h2 in order to do this.
Edit:
An example.
CSS
.noborder {border:none !important}
"!important" ensures it overrides the other CSS style.
HTML
<td class="noborder">
Edit2:
Also ".sale td" in your CSS means any <td> inside a block (table in this case) with a class of "sale". So you don't set a class of "sale td" on your <table> - but just "sale"
For every row you can use this css:
.sale td {border: 1px solid grey; }
but for the rows with <h2> in it:
.sale tr.no-border td {
border: 0px !important;
}
and your html will look like:
<tr class="no-border">
<td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"><h2>Heading</h2></td>
</tr>
I'm trying to write some HTML/CSS to display a certain row with some of the elements left-aligned and some of them in the center. This was my HTML code:
<tr class="mainInfo" id="header">
<td> Item </td>
<td> Color </td>
<td> Size </td>
<div class="mid">
<td> Subtotal </td>
<td> Tax </td>
<td> Total </td>
</div>
</tr>
And this is my CSS code:
.mid {
text-align: center;
}
.mainInfo {
font: bold 13px Tahoma;
}
#header {
background-color: #68891;
color: white;
}
But the last three elements are not moving to the center, and I really don't understand why not. I tried putting class="mid" in the <td> tags and that worked, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of DRY?
Fiddle Demo
You cannot put a div instead of td element.
You should validate your HTML code with w3 validator.
If you'll do so you'll see you get this error message:
document type does not allow element "DIV" here; missing one of "TH", "TD" start-tag
Maybe you can do it this way:
<table>
<tr class="mainInfo" id="header">
<td> Item </td>
<td> Color </td>
<td> Size </td>
<td class="center">Subtotal</td>
<td class="center">Tax</td>
<td class="center">Total</td>
</tr>
</table>
JSFiddle example
No, you should not put divs inside tr's or tables.
And you should not use tr's or td's without table-element.
<table>
<tr>
<td>hello world</td>
<!-- This is bare minimum to use tables properly -->
</tr>
</table>
You can insert whatever(not tr or td, but could start new table) you want inside TD-elements though.
It's possible to use other elements to replace these standard ones with css display-property set to table-row etc., but you should stick to conventional tags.
Use colspan/rowspan to span over multiple table columns or rows.
CSS classes are designed to be used as often you need/want to. Only IDs should appear once per page.
Of course you should always keep the DRY concept in mind but in your case it's totally fine. It wouldn't if you would set your .mid class to every <td> because in that case you could just set the properties directly to the <td> element.
middle is not a valid value for text-align, so I'm going to assume, in your CSS, that's meant to be vertical-align. If so, it's because vertical-align will only apply to table cells, not divs - that would explain why it is only being successfully applied to your tds.
Additionally, you shouldn't really put a div inside a table (and shouldn't put a td inside of that) but that's not related to your problem.
Assign one class for left alignment and other for center like so...
.left {
text-align:left;
}
.center {
text-align:center;
}
Asign class to TD elements
<tr class="mainInfo" id="header">
<td class='left'> Item </td>
<td class='center'> Color </td>
</tr>
When you create a basic HTML table everything seems to stay in center of the table. I don't want this how can i stop this from happening?
I wish to use a 2 column html table one for column for a sidebar one for content. Because i have so much content the sidebar text (which is little) gos to the middle of column.
How do i align the text to stay to the top left of the columns?
In the <td> element that contains the lefthand sidebar, try specifying a style that aligns text to the top:
<td style="vertical-align: top">(Sidebar HTML code here)</td>
You can control the alignment of columns directly in your markup by using:
<td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"></td>
or even just
<td align="left"></td>
This will work fine for a 2-column table, but Piccolomomo has the better plan if you are going to use it a lot. This might help you further if you need it:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
You can use CSS to change text aligning inside your table:
td {
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
}
For aligning text in table you have to use css.Without css or any style sheet you can't make them align.So you can use inline css or external css for that.
<style type="text/css">
table td{
text-align:left;
vertical-align:top;
}
</style>
<table>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="left">
Side Bar
</td>
<td>
Content
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I have an HTML page in which I want my content to be centered but, within a specific table on that page, I need to have many of the cells be left-aligned and many to be right-aligned and one cell to be center-aligned. Here's a snippet of HTML & CSS that should give you an idea of what I'm trying to do:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style>
.contentWrapper {
width: 1000px;
border: 1px solid black;
margin: auto;
}
.centerAligned {
text-align: center;
}
.myTable td {
width: 200px;
text-align: left;
}
.myTable td.label {
text-align: right;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="contentWrapper centerAligned">
<p>A label for this table...</p>
<table class="myTable" border="1" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="label">Label 1 (Right Aligned)</td>
<td>Value 1 (Left Aligned)</td>
<td class="label">Label 2 (Right Aligned)</td>
<td>Value 2 (Left Aligned)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="label">Label 3 (Right Aligned)</td>
<td>Value 3 (Left Aligned)</td>
<td class="label">Label 4 (Right Aligned)</td>
<td>Value 4 (Left Aligned)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" class="centerAligned">
<input type="button" value="Push Me!">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Some more content...</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I didn't really want to put a class into every single td just to handle how they should be aligned, so I opted to set a default alignment for ".myTable td" of left. This allowed me to leave all the "value" cells to be without a class, but I still need to define one for my "label" cells to get a right alignment for those.
When it comes to the button at the bottom, which I would like to be center aligned, I want to be able to use the class "centerAligned". Unfortunately, using it here doesn't do anything as the ".myTable td" class is considered "more precise" and that cell is given a left alignment instead of a centered one.
I'm using "centerAligned" in other places, so I don't want to simply do away with that class, nor do I want to change the name to something else. I can do this:
.centerAligned, .myTable td.centerAligned {
text-align: center;
}
That seems to work, but this whole thing seems kinda smelly to me. Is there a better way to handle styling these table cells to get the effect that I want without having to define a specific class for every single td?
Thanks!
Use col
Have a look here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.4
Or here for XHTML
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml2-20040722/mod-tables.html#sec_26.2.
Why don't you just use a 'th' tag for your labels and put a css on that? That way you wont need to put a label class on all of the td 'labels'. So
.myTable th {
width: 200px;
text-align: right;
}
as mentioned in another answer this should be able to be done with colgroup and col but it can't and the colspan is the reason why, how would a 'colspanned' row know which col to take it's alignment from?
I would perhaps feel like suggesting :nth-child but I think it might suffer the same issue when a colspan was met, and you wouldn't get IE support so here's a fiddle which needs no classes and still uses specificity to get the desired result
working example based on opening code with a colspan - JSFIDDLE
You can use jQuery
$('#myTable tr td:eq(0)').css('text-align', 'left');
$('#myTable tr td:eq(1)').css('text-align', 'center');
$('#myTable tr td:eq(2)').css('text-align', 'right');
eq is zero based. So all first cells will be left aligned, all second cells will be center aligned and so on. Adjust to your needs.
You didn't quite describe which position the cells are that need to be right aligned vs. left aligned. But as Bazz suggested you can use col to set styles for all s in that col or maybe you can do the same with a style if your right-aligned cells are in the same row.
If you're able to use col, all you need is:
<table>
<col>
<col class="label">
<col>
<tr>...
Then
.label { text-align: right }
There's nothing wrong with the way you're doing it though...