Align a table, center(the td) and left the text inside td

Question

I am trying to align a table, center(the td) and left the text inside td;

I try to use flex to align center, which in a way it does, but can't align left.

I've seen the solution which uses padding-left: 50%, but that doesn't fit my needs.

table {
    color: #212121;
    font-size: .875rem;
    margin: 1.25rem 0; 
    border-collapse: collapse;
    table-layout: fixed;
    width: 100%;
    border: 1px solid red;
}


tr {
    display:flex;   
    width: 100%;
    justify-content: center;
}

tr td { 
    max-width: 50%;
    text-align:left;
    border: 1px solid blue;
}

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>lorem ipsum</td>
      <td>alpha</td>
     </tr> 
     <tr>
      <td>lorem ipsum ipsum</td>
      <td>teata ipsum alpha</td>
     </tr>                
   </tbody>
</table>

What I want to obtain:

The border line, are just for distance comparison

Answer 1

you can insert span tag in table,html code:

 <table>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td><span>lorem ipsum</span></td>
          <td><span>alpha</span></td>
         </tr> 
         <tr>
          <td><span>lorem ipsum ipsum</span></td>
          <td><span>teata ipsum alpha
            teata ipsum alpha</span></td>
         </tr>                
       </tbody>
    </table>

css code:

table {
    color: #212121;
    font-size: .875rem;
    margin: 1.25rem 0; 
    border-collapse: collapse;
    table-layout: fixed;
    width: 100%;
    border: 1px solid red;
}


tr {
    display:flex;   
    justify-content: center;
    text-align:center;

}
tr td{
    border: 1px solid blue;
    width:50%;

}
tr td span{ 
   display:inline-block; 
   width:50%;  
   text-align:left; 
    white-space:break;
}

this result's link: https://jsbin.com/huvitefeqe/edit?html,css,js,output