As gathered from Why align="center" not overriding on {text-align:right;} this article, CSS should take prescience over old-style layout attributes. I am working on a project where I have to inject content in a cell that has the format:
<td align="center">...</td>
I do not want my content to be centered, trying to use text-align="left" does not override the td-tag, as suggested in the article. What can I do to override the TD align attibute?
If you are allowed to change the content of the td, you can then wrap the td values with another tag with text-align:left;
Resulting Tag would be:
<td align="center"> <div class="left">content here</div> </td> Here is the new CSS:
td div.left { text-align:left; } If you cannot modify the cell value, another work around is to modify the align attribute using javascript, In jquery:
$(document).ready(function(){ $('td [align=center]').attr('align','left'); // $('td [align=center]').attr('align','left').css('text-align','left'); //or still not working }); 
<td align="center">...</td> CSS:
td { text-align: left; } Or add a class to it:
<td align="center" class="mytd">...</td> CSS:
td.mytd { text-align: left; } For anyone specifically looking to override all elements that specify [align], this'll do:
body [align] { text-align: center; } 