Forum:Valign

I have many large and complex tables that I have spent years making.

These table make extensive use of valign and align which are now obsoete.

OK, well thats a pain but the world must progress so I suppose its all for the best.

I assumed that I would just have to look up the new equivalents of each of these obsolete elements and substitute them in.

But no. Its not that simple.

text-align:center evidently acts both horizontally and vertically.

what if I just want one or teh other?

And it only acts on inline elements!

margin:auto has the opposite problem.

It acts on block elemests but if I try to use it to center a child table in the center of a cell of a parent table then it only centers horizontally.

How do I center the table vertically?

Granpa (talk) 05:53, August 13, 2012 (UTC)