HTMLTableColElement: vAlign property
Deprecated: This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.
The vAlign property of the HTMLTableColElement interface is a string indicating how to vertically align text in a table <col> column element.
Note: This property is deprecated, and CSS should be used to align text vertically in a column. Use the CSS vertical-align property, which takes precedence, to vertically align text in each column cell instead.
As <td> are not children of <col>, you can't set it directly on a <col> element, you need to select the cells of the column using a td:nth-child(n) or similar (n is the column number).
Value
The possible values are: "top", "middle", "bottom", or "baseline"
top-
Align the text to the top of the column. Use
vertical-align: topinstead. center-
Vertically center the text in the column. Synonym of
middle. Usevertical-align: middleinstead. middle-
Vertically center the text in the column. Use
vertical-align: middleinstead. bottom-
Align the text to the bottom of the column. Use
vertical-align: bottominstead. baseline-
Similar to
top, but align the baseline of the text as close to the top so no part of the character is outside of the cell.
Examples
Use CSS vertical-align. As <td> elements of a column are not children of <col>, you can't set it directly on a <col>, you need to select the cells using a td:nth-child(n) or similar (n is the column number).
An example is available on the :nth-child() page.
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML Standard # dom-col-valign |
Browser compatibility
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