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What is default align in <td>?

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stranger123

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I have tested the following code that the string "aaaaaaaaaaa" was displied at the center. However, if I remove <!DOCTYPE......loose.dtd">, the string would be displied at the left.
Do you think I missed something or it the designed behaviour?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"
<table width="100%" border=1>
<tr><td align="center">

<table width="90%" border=1>
<tr><td>aaaaaaaaaaa</td></tr>
</table>

</td></tr>
</table>
 
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Do you think the alingment in a <td> inherits the alignment in the father table?
 
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Default horizontal alignment for td is left, as was mentioned, default vertical alignment is middle. However, all html elements will always inherit the text alignment from their parents. That said, there is really no need to nest tables.
 
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Vragabond,

In fact I want all <td>s use left alignment except align=center is inserted. However, after adding the <!DOCTYPE......loose.dtd">, the rule changed, I need to change my code a lot.
BTW, I nexted tables not for alignment setting.
 
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However, that will change <td align="center"> in my code to align="left"!!
 
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Then change
Code: 
<td align="center">

to
Code: 
<td class="center">

and use
Code: 
<style type="text/css">
<!--
td {
    text-align: left;
}
.center {
    text-align: center;
}
-->
</style>

There are many ways to attack the situation.

M. Brooks
 
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That may work, I will try.

So, you believe using <!DOCTYPE......loose.dtd"> will change the alignment setting behaviour?
 
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