Why text-align doesn't work in colgroup?

Question

What is wrong with this XHTML 1.1:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html><body><table>
  <colgroup>
    <col style="width: 10em; text-align: right;" />
    <col style="width: 10em;" />
  </colgroup>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>test1</td>
      <td>test2</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table></body></html>

The problem is that test1 is not aligned to right, as it is supposed to be.

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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Answered here already. Basically text-align doesn't apply to columns.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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answered Mar 27 '11 at 09:03

andyb

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 27 '11 at 09:03

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Perhaps, this would help you: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html#columns

answered Mar 27 '11 at 09:03

Lyubomyr Shaydariv

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Why text-align doesn't work in colgroup?

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