Better way to right align text in HTML Table

Question

I have an HTML table with large number of rows, and I need to right align one column.

I know the following ways,

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Answer 1

A number of years ago (in the IE only days) I was using the tag, but I just tested it and and it seems to be an IE only feature:

    


    

        
        
        
        

            
ISBN
            
Title
            
Price
        
        

            
3476896
            
My first HTML
            
$53
        
    

The snippet is taken from www.w3schools.com. Of course, it should not be used (unless for some reason you really target the IE rendering engine only), but I thought it would be interesting to mention it.

Edit:

• IE still supports it.
• Firefox has dropped support in 3.5.
• Safari does not seem to support it, but the documentation indicates otherwise.

Overall, I don't understand the reasoning behing abandoning this tag. It would appear to be very useful (at least for manual HTML publishing).