I was trying to get table elements to align left when exported to html, and I was having a bit of trouble doing it. I had a table entry at the top | <l> | in the appropriate column, but that wasn't working. When I looked at the resulting html, it looked fine: <th scope="col" class="left">Math Department</th> But then I checked the css code, which is given by the value of `org-html-style-default' in ox-html.el:
th.right { text-align: center; } th.left { text-align: center; } th.center { text-align: center; } td.right { text-align: right; } td.left { text-align: left; } td.center { text-align: center; } (It's this way in emacs 24.5 and the latest development version of emacs.) Easy to change locally, but am I missing something, or should `org-html-style-default' have th.right { text-align: right; } th.left { text-align: left; } th.center { text-align: center; } td.right { text-align: right; } td.left { text-align: left; } td.center { text-align: center; } Thanks, Jay Emacs : GNU Emacs 25.0.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2015-05-02 on belanger-home Package: Org-mode version 8.2.10 (release_8.2.10 @ /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/org/)