Comment 390 for bug 353877

In reply to Brian, even if we had a <tn> element, it wouldn't help to align texts to a "pivot" character. align:"char" is/was a very interesting way in html/css to do the job.

And I even seen it used in a copy/paste from OpenOffice to a browser (in a html attribute)...

Every other "solution" is only... painful

As for col/colgroup to really group cols. And don't talk again about :nth in css, it simply fail stupidly where you have to colspan/rowspan