Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

ALIGN — NN all IE all HTML 3.2

Synopsis

ALIGN=”where"

Optional

Determines how the caption is rendered in physical relation to the table. Not all versions of all browsers support the full range of possibilities for this attribute. Only top and bottom are universal among all supporting browsers.

Browsers typically render a caption above or below a table in the running body font (unless modified by tag or style sheet) and centered horizontally on the table. If the caption is wider than the table, text is wrapped to the next line, maintaining center justification.

The ALIGN attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0 in favor of the text-align: and vertical-align: style sheet attribute.

Example

<CAPTION ALIGN="top">Table II. Stock List</CAPTION>

Value

Each browser and the HTML 4.0 specification define different sets of values for this attribute. Select the one(s) from the following table that work for your deployment:

Value	NN 4	IE 4	HTML 4.0
bottom	•	•	•
center	-	•	-
left	-	•	•
right	-	•	•
top	•	•	•

Moreover, IE 4 and HTML 4.0 disagree on the intention of the left and right values. In IE 4, the captions are always at the top or bottom of the table (see the VALIGN attribute), but the text is right-, center-, or left-aligned in those positions. HTML 4.0 speaks of left and right as meaning positioning the entire caption to the left or right of the table. If Internet Explorer were to adopt the HTML 4.0 specification in ...