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I'm doing my first steps with the kindle format KF8. The Publishing Guidelines state that the format supports CSS3:
The earlier Kindle platform offered very basic support for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This has been significantly enhanced in KF8 with support for CSS 2/CSS 3.
Now this seems to be "very basic" here: I want to right align text in a table cell. Compare the output of Chrome vs kindlegen 2.9 / Kindle Previewer 2.94. Kindle Preview ignores the alignment completely.
What am I doing wrong?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Table sample</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<style>
td.right {
padding: 2px 4px;
text-align : right;
}
td.left {
padding: 2px 4px;
text-align : left;
}
td.center {
padding: 2px 4px;
text-align : center;
}
h2 { color: green; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<a name="part2_chap1"/>
<article role="main">
<header class="chapter">
<hgroup>
<h2>ALIGNMENT</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<div class="epigraph">
<p class="noind">How to right align table data</p>
</div>
<section class="table" id="table01">
<table>
<tr>
<th>
<i>---center---</i>
</th>
<th>
<i>---right---</i>
</th>
<th>
<i>---right---</i>
</th>
<th>
<i>---left---</i>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="center">---centered---</td>
<td class="right">right></td>
<td class="right">right></td>
<td class="left"><left</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="center">centered</td>
<td class="right">right></td>
<td class="right">right></td>
<td class="left"><left</td>
</tr>
</table>
</section>
</article>
</body>
</html>
624
It's frustrating when you have to make such workarounds in the name of styling, but I would advise applying the text alignment to a containing element within the td, e.g.
Stylesheet snippet:
td.right div {
width: 100%;
text-align: right;
}
Html snippet:
<tr>
<td class="right"><div>right></div></td>
</tr>
Hopefully this will suit your needs until Amazon tidy this up.
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