# External css defining different from inline attribute?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-css-defining-different-from-inline-attribute/181710>\
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**Created:** [March 12, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-css-defining-different-from-inline-attribute/181710 "2006-03-12T07:02:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![fm47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@fm47](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fm47)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-css-defining-different-from-inline-attribute/181710/1 "2006-03-12T07:02:42Z")

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I right-aligned my submittion date with an external css defining and the result was

[http://www.geocities.com/team\_essential/needhelp/dateWith\_css.gif](http://www.geocities.com/team_essential/needhelp/dateWith_css.gif)

I noticed it didnt go to the end of the table, so I aligned it with align=“right” and got

[http://www.geocities.com/team\_essential/needhelp/dateWithOUT\_css.gif](http://www.geocities.com/team_essential/needhelp/dateWithOUT_css.gif)

Can anyone help me? The difference is that the css one also defines a few text sizes, color, font, ect.