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Subject:Re: Decimal point alignment in HTML Tables From:"Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Thu, 27 May 1999 06:51:35 -0700
Use <PRE> tags, as long as you can live with the monospaced, courier look.
You at least won't have to worry about browser versions supporting it or
not.
Bev Parks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Crockett [SMTP:BrufusD -at- AOL -dot- COM]
>
> Other than putting all the numbers hard left or hard right, is there a way
> to
> align entries in a column of table cells by their decimal points in HTML?
> That is, if I have a column containing individual cells of 3.00, 200.00
> and
> 70.00, with a total cell at the bottom of 273.00, can I make it look nice
> and
> tidy?
>
>