<td> align attribute causes validation errors in IE 8

[chris@…]

If I enter this code into the source view using IE8:

<table>

<tr>

<td align="center">some text</td>

</tr>

</table>

It gets changed to

<table>

<tr>

<td align="middle">some text</td>

</tr>

</table>

The new value of "middle" instead of "center" and the page is no longer validate using an xhtml transitional dtd.

[Jakub Ś]

This has been true for IE6, IE7 and IE8 from CKEditor 3.0.

For a minute I thought that output for XHTML sample will handle it but align attribute is changed despite the sample.