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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).
The possible values are: "top", "middle", "bottom", or "baseline"
topAlign the text to the top of the column. Use vertical-align: top instead.
centerVertically center the text in the column. Synonym of middle. Use vertical-align: middle instead.
middleVertically center the text in the column. Use vertical-align: middle instead.
bottomAlign the text to the bottom of the column. Use vertical-align: bottom instead.
baselineSimilar 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.
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.
| HTML # dom-col-valign |
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