Centering text in a table in Twitter Bootstrap

For some reason, The text inside the table still is not centered. Why? How do I center the text inside the table?

To make it really Clear: For example, I want "Lorem" to sit in the middle of the four "1". ​

@import url('http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/css/bootstrap.css');
table,
thead,
tr,
tbody,
th,
td {
  text-align: center;
}

<table class="table">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>1</th>
      <th>1</th>
      <th>1</th>
      <th>1</th>
      <th>2</th>
      <th>2</th>
      <th>2</th>
      <th>2</th>
      <th>3</th>
      <th>3</th>
      <th>3</th>
      <th>3</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="4">Lorem</td>
      <td colspan="4">ipsum</td>
      <td colspan="4">dolor</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

JSFiddle

In Bootstrap 3 (3.0.3) adding the "text-center" class to a td element works out of the box.

I.e., the following centers some text in a table cell:

<td class="text-center">some text</td>

The .table td 's text-align is set to left, rather than center.

Adding this should center all your tds:

.table td {
   text-align: center;   
}

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@import url('https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css');
table,
thead,
tr,
tbody,
th,
td {
  text-align: center;
}

.table td {
  text-align: center;
}

<table class="table">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>1</th>
      <th>1</th>
      <th>1</th>
      <th>1</th>
      <th>2</th>
      <th>2</th>
      <th>2</th>
      <th>2</th>
      <th>3</th>
      <th>3</th>
      <th>3</th>
      <th>3</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="4">Lorem</td>
      <td colspan="4">ipsum</td>
      <td colspan="4">dolor</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Updated JSFIDDLE

I think who the best mix for html & Css for quick and clean mod is :

<table class="table text-center">
<thead>
		<tr>			  		
		<th class="text-center">Uno</th>
		<th class="text-center">Due</th>
		<th class="text-center">Tre</th>
		<th class="text-center">Quattro</th>
	</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td>1</td>
		<td>2</td>
		<td>3</td>
		<td>4</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

close the <table> init tag then copy where you want :) I hope it can be useful Have a good day w stackoverflow

p.s. Bootstrap v3.2.0

You can make td's align without changing the css by adding a div with a class of "text-center" inside the cell:

    <td>
        <div class="text-center">
            My centered text
        </div>
    </td>

<td class="text-center">

and fix .text-center in bootstrap.css:

.text-center {
    text-align: center !important;
}

If it's just once, you shouldn't alter your style sheet. Just edit that particular td:

<td style="text-align: center;">

Cheers

I had the same problem and a better way to solve it without using !important was defining the following in my CSS:

table th.text-center, table td.text-center { 
    text-align: center;
}

That way the specifity of the text-center class works correctly in tables.

One of the main feature of Bootstrap is that it alleviates the use of !important tag. Using the above answer would defeat the purpose. You can easily customise bootstrap by modifying the classes in your own css file and linking it after including the boostrap css.

add:

<p class="text-center"> Your text here... </p>

just give the surrounding <tr> a custom class like:

<tr class="custom_centered">
  <td>1</td>
  <td>2</td>
  <td>3</td>
</tr>

and have the css only select <td>s that are inside an <tr> with your custom class.

tr.custom_centered td {
  text-align: center;
}

like this you don't risk to override other tables or even override a bootstrap base class (like some of my predecessors suggested).