Right align and left align text in same HTML table cell

I have a cell in an HTML <table>. I would like part of the cell contents to be left justified and part to be right justified. Is this possible?

If you want them on separate lines do what Balon said. If you want them on the same lines, do:

<td>
  <div style="float:left;width:50%;">this is left</div>
  <div style="float:right;width:50%;">this is right</div>
</td>

I came up with this while trying to figure out how to display currency ('$' to left, number to right) in table cells:

<div class="currency">20.34</div>

.currency {
   text-align: right;
}

.currency:before {
   content: "$";
   float: left;
   padding-right: 4px;
}

It is possible but how depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If it's this:

| Left-aligned       Right-aligned | in one cell then you can use floating divs inside the td tag:

<td>
<div style='float: left; text-align: left'>Left-aligned</div>
<div style='float: right; text-align: right'>Right-aligned</div>
</td>

If it's | Left-aligned
                                           Right Aligned |

Then Balon's solution is correct.

If it's: | Left-aligned    |   Right-Aligned |

Then it's:

<td align="left">Left-aligned</td>
<td align="right">Right-Aligned</td>

Tor Valamo's answer with a little contribution form my side: use the attribute "nowrap" in the "td" element, and you can remove the "width" specification. Hope it helps.

<td nowrap>
  <div style="float:left;">this is left</div>
  <div style="float:right;">this is right</div>
</td>

Do you mean like this?

<!-- ... --->
<td>
   this text should be left justified
   and this text should be right justified?
</td>
<!-- ... --->

If yes

<!-- ... --->
<td>
   <p style="text-align: left;">this text should be left justified</p>
   <p style="text-align: right;">and this text should be right justified?</p>
</td>
<!-- ... --->

td style is not necessary but will make it easier to see this example in browser

<table>
 <tr>
  <td style="border: 1px solid black; width: 200px;">
  <div style="width: 50%; float: left; text-align: left;">left</div>
  <div style="width: 50%; float: left; text-align: right;">right</div>
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>

You could use something like:

<td> 
  <div style="float:left;width:49%;text-align:left;">this is left</div> 
  <div style="float:right;width:49%;text-align:right;">this is right</div> 
</td>

The 49% is to give some room for the renderer to wrap things around.

And you can use either <div> or <span>