Better way to right align text in HTML Table

Question

I have an HTML table with large number of rows, and I need to right align one column.

I know the following ways,

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Answer 1

This doesn't work in IE6, which may be an issue, but it'll work in IE7+ and Firefox, Safari etc. It'll align the 3rd column right and all of the subsequent columns left.

td + td + td { text-align: right; }
td + td + td + td { text-align: left; }