Applying style="text-align: center;" to col attribute does seem to work

[Grant Hogarth]

Is this not supported?  Trying to avoid the code bloat of applying this style string to a lot of cells in a table.

[Bill Bailey · Accepted solution]

You tried just highlighting the column(s) and clicking the center align button in the editor ribbon?

[Grant Hogarth]

Yes.  That just throws in a style="text-align: center;" into every highlighted cell.  The opposite of what I was looking for. <wry smile>

[Bill Bailey]

You said you wanted to add center aligned to the a column attribute. So I am a confused as to what you are wanting to do.

[Grant Hogarth]

I want to *only* have the alignment value in the <col> section, rather than overrides for every cell in the table.
DESIRED:
<table>
     <colgroup>
          <col style="width: 246.0px; text-align: right;"/>
          <col style="width: 84.0px; text-align: center;"/>
          <col style="width: 86.0px; text-align: center;"/>
          <col style="width: 87.0px; text-align: center;"/>
     </colgroup>
     <tbody>
          <tr>
               <th>ITEM</th>
               <th>Status</th>
               <th>Number</th>
               <th>Group</th>
          </tr>
          <tr>
               <td>ITEM</td>
               <td>Status</td>
               <td>Number</td>
               <td>Group</td>
          </tr>
     <tbody>
<table>

(For about thirty-plus rows.)
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Currently I get this:
<table>
     <colgroup> 
          <col style="width: 246.0p"/> 
          <col style="width: 84.0px"/> 
          <col style="width: 86.0px"/> 
          <col style="width: 87.0px;"/>
     </colgroup>
     <tbody>
          <tr>
               <th style="text-align: right;">ITEM</th>
               <th style="text-align: center;">Status</th>
               <th style="text-align: center;">Number</th>
               <th style="text-align: center;">Group</th>
          </tr>
          <tr>
               <td style="text-align: right;">ITEM</td>
               <td style="text-align: center;">Status</td>
               <td style="text-align: center;">Number</td>
               <td style="text-align: center;">Group</td>
          </tr>
     <tbody>
<table>

[Davin Studer]

You are correct that this is not how the editor works. There is no way to make it do what you are asking. You could work around it with good ol' CSS like below, but as for having the editor do it that unfortunately is a no go.

table tbody tr :nth-child(2),table tbody tr :nth-child(3),table tbody tr :nth-child(4){text-align: center;}

[Grant Hogarth]

Ah well. :(
If it's not a defect, it's something for the wish list, as it makes the page code a lot smaller.
It is valid HTML!  :-)

Thank you

Grant