diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 73d6964..f71fb54 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+ o the content of table generated by bibtex2html is now centered with CSS
+   instead of obsolete align and valign properties
  o default DOI prefix is now https://doi.org/, as recommended in the official
    crossref guidelines
  o option "--expand" also expands each abbreviation between keyword "and" in
diff --git a/translate.ml b/translate.ml
index 07bff00..a61d21c 100644
--- a/translate.ml
+++ b/translate.ml
@@ -391,8 +391,8 @@ let close_table ch = match !table with
 
 let open_row ch = match !table with
   | Table ->
-      Html.open_balise ch "tr valign=\"top\""; output_string ch "\n";
-      Html.open_balise ch "td align=\"right\" class=\"bibtexnumber\"";
+      Html.open_balise ch "tr style=\"vertical-align:top\""; output_string ch "\n";
+      Html.open_balise ch "td style=\"text-align:right\" class=\"bibtexnumber\"";
       output_string ch "\n"
   | DL ->
       Html.open_balise ch "dt"; output_string ch "\n"