how to center a table horizontally on the page

[Biying Huang <bi...@synthematix.com>]

Hi, everyone:

I have a table which has dynamic table-width. I need to put it in the
center of the page horizontally so I put the fo:table in a fo:block and
set text-align="center" to the fo:block. But this doesn't work. The
table is always on the left. Here is my code:

<fo:block text-align="center">
      <fo:table>
         ....
      </fo:table>
</fo:block>

Thank you very much for any advices.

Biying

Re: how to center a table horizontally on the page

[Oleg Tkachenko <ol...@multiconn.com>]

Biying Huang wrote:

> I have a table which has dynamic table-width. I need to put it in the
> center of the page horizontally so I put the fo:table in a fo:block and
> set text-align="center" to the fo:block. But this doesn't work. The
> table is always on the left.
text-align is about aligning *inline* content.
In a pure xsl-fo exist at least 2 different methods of centering a table 
on a page, both are actually tricks and unfortunately FOP doesn't 
support both of them. Therefore the only way is using a blind table, see 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-user&m=102952965830886&w=2.

-- 
Oleg Tkachenko
eXperanto team
Multiconn Technologies, Israel