I believe that something along these lines would have worked at one time... 

<style>
  .mlx-test-align tr td {
    text-align: ".";
  }
</style>
<table class="mlx-test-align">
  <tr><td>1.01234</td></tr>
  <tr><td>101.234</td></tr>
  <tr><td>101.00</td></tr>
  <tr><td>10123.4</td></tr>
</table>

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... but according to the blooberry CSS reference (IME, a fairly reliable summary of the various aspects of the CSS and HTML specs),
The [string] value type has been removed in CSS2.1.
I was not able to produce the correct alignment using text-align, but that may speak more of my capabilities than the capabilities of my browsers.

Rather a shame, as aligning to a character has some useful applications.

Update: It appears that another blooberry page has some possibly updated information (testing below...)

Example from w3.org
Vegetable Cost per kilo
Lettuce $1
Silver carrots $10.50
Golden turnips $100.30

I am not able to reproduce their results. My guess is that I didn't set the document type correctly.

--MidLifeXis

In reply to Re^4: CSV or HTML? (now OT) by MidLifeXis
in thread CSV or HTML? by jms53

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