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Centering Tables

Hi together,

I’m trying to get some nice presentation for a equation which includes a matrix or a column-vector. Hence I’ve build a table (<table>-Tag) with 3 columns (right side and left side of the equation & the equation symbol).
So now the whole equation is in one row, which is already fine, but how can I center my equation respectively the Table?
I’ve tried

<table style="text-align:center">,

but this doesn’t change anything. I’ve found some article on the web (see here).

According to this article something like:
table.center {margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;} and then <table class="center"> should work, but how can I type in something in ActiveMath?

Can somebody help me?

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try style="cm"

Andi,

have you tried the following?

<p style="cm">
  <table>...
</p>

the interest of such a tag is that it follows LaTeX’s $$ with, for example, things above and below in sums. But it also centers.

paul

style="cm" doesn't work

Hi Paul,

I’ve tried it, but it doesn’t seem to work here.

Are there any other alternatives?

please put on sandbox

Andi,

can you upload this on sandbox please so we can see it on the web?

It’s not a hard thing but I’d better have it this way so that we propose a practice that’s here to stay.

thanks in advance.

paul

Hey Andi, I guess one

Hey Andi, I guess one problem is that you haven’t specified the table width. This way the table is always 100% broad and therefore not centerable.

Additionally to Paul approach with <p style=”cm”> you can add a padding style to the table for example: <table width=”80%” style=”padding-left:15%”> …

This is not 100% accurate but almost.

Michael