diff --git a/R/kable_styling.R b/R/kable_styling.R
index 764e011..9274ea0 100644
--- a/R/kable_styling.R
+++ b/R/kable_styling.R
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
   position_style <- switch(
     position,
     center = "margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;",
-    left = "text-align: right;",
+    left = "",
     right = "margin-right: 0; margin-left: auto",
     float_left = "float: left; margin-right: 10px;",
     float_right = "float: right; margin-left: 10px;"
diff --git a/docs/awesome_table_in_html.html b/docs/awesome_table_in_html.html
index 0b49116..c2a2f10 100644
--- a/docs/awesome_table_in_html.html
+++ b/docs/awesome_table_in_html.html
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 <meta name="author" content="Hao Zhu" />
 
-<meta name="date" content="2017-07-24" />
+<meta name="date" content="2017-07-28" />
 
 <title>Create Awesome HTML Table with knitr::kable and kableExtra</title>
 
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
 
 <h1 class="title toc-ignore">Create Awesome HTML Table with knitr::kable and kableExtra</h1>
 <h4 class="author"><em>Hao Zhu</em></h4>
-<h4 class="date"><em>2017-07-24</em></h4>
+<h4 class="date"><em>2017-07-28</em></h4>
 
 </div>
 
@@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@
 <p>Table Position only matters when the table doesn’t have <code>full_width</code>. You can choose to align the table to <code>center</code>, <code>left</code> or <code>right</code> side of the page</p>
 <pre class="r"><code>kable(dt) %&gt;%
   kable_styling(bootstrap_options = &quot;striped&quot;, full_width = F, position = &quot;left&quot;)</code></pre>
-<table class="table table-striped" style="width: auto !important; text-align: right;">
+<table class="table table-striped" style="width: auto !important; ">
 <thead>
 <tr>
 <th style="text-align:left;">
@@ -1593,7 +1593,8 @@
 <table class="table table-striped" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
 <thead>
 <tr>
-<th style="border-bottom:hidden"></th>
+<th style="border-bottom:hidden">
+</th>
 <th style="text-align:center; border-bottom:hidden; padding-bottom:0; padding-left:3px;padding-right:3px;" colspan="2">
 <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;padding-bottom: 5px;">
 Group 1
@@ -1760,7 +1761,8 @@
 <table class="table table-striped table-bordered" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
 <thead>
 <tr>
-<th style="border-bottom:hidden"></th>
+<th style="border-bottom:hidden">
+</th>
 <th style="text-align:center; border-bottom:hidden; padding-bottom:0; padding-left:3px;padding-right:3px;" colspan="6">
 <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;padding-bottom: 5px;">
 Group 6
@@ -1768,7 +1770,8 @@
 </th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<th style="border-bottom:hidden"></th>
+<th style="border-bottom:hidden">
+</th>
 <th style="text-align:center; border-bottom:hidden; padding-bottom:0; padding-left:3px;padding-right:3px;" colspan="4">
 <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;padding-bottom: 5px;">
 Group 4
@@ -1781,7 +1784,8 @@
 </th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<th style="border-bottom:hidden"></th>
+<th style="border-bottom:hidden">
+</th>
 <th style="text-align:center; border-bottom:hidden; padding-bottom:0; padding-left:3px;padding-right:3px;" colspan="2">
 <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;padding-bottom: 5px;">
 Group 1
@@ -2409,7 +2413,8 @@
 </caption>
 <thead>
 <tr>
-<th style="border-bottom:hidden"></th>
+<th style="border-bottom:hidden">
+</th>
 <th style="text-align:center; border-bottom:hidden; padding-bottom:0; padding-left:3px;padding-right:3px;" colspan="3">
 <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;padding-bottom: 5px;">
 Group 1<sup>†</sup>
@@ -2671,13 +2676,13 @@
 2.320
 </td>
 </tr>
-<tr groupLength="4">
+<tr grouplength="4">
 <td colspan="7" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">
 <strong>Group 1</strong>
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td style="text-align:left; padding-left: 2em;" indentLevel="1">
+<td style="text-align:left; padding-left: 2em;" indentlevel="1">
 Hornet 4 Drive
 </td>
 <td style="text-align:right;">
@@ -2700,7 +2705,7 @@
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td style="text-align:left; padding-left: 2em;" indentLevel="1">
+<td style="text-align:left; padding-left: 2em;" indentlevel="1">
 Hornet Sportabout
 </td>
 <td style="text-align:right;">
@@ -2723,7 +2728,7 @@
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td style="text-align:left; padding-left: 2em;" indentLevel="1">
+<td style="text-align:left; padding-left: 2em;" indentlevel="1">
 Valiant
 </td>
 <td style="text-align:right;">
@@ -2746,7 +2751,7 @@
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td style="text-align:left; padding-left: 2em;" indentLevel="1">
+<td style="text-align:left; padding-left: 2em;" indentlevel="1">
 Duster 360
 </td>
 <td style="text-align:right;">
@@ -2768,7 +2773,7 @@
 3.570
 </td>
 </tr>
-<tr groupLength="3">
+<tr grouplength="3">
 <td colspan="7" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">
 <strong>Group 2</strong>
 </td>
@@ -2920,7 +2925,7 @@
 2.875
 </td>
 </tr>
-<tr groupLength="3">
+<tr grouplength="3">
 <td colspan="7" style="background-color: #666; color: #fff;">
 <strong>Group 1</strong>
 </td>
@@ -3414,7 +3419,7 @@
 3
 </td>
 <td style="text-align:center;">
-0
+1
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
@@ -3457,7 +3462,7 @@
 8
 </td>
 <td style="text-align:center;">
-0
+1
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
@@ -3465,7 +3470,7 @@
 9
 </td>
 <td style="text-align:center;">
-0
+1
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
@@ -3487,7 +3492,7 @@
 11
 </td>
 <td style="text-align:center;">
-0
+1
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
@@ -3506,7 +3511,7 @@
 13
 </td>
 <td style="text-align:center;">
-0
+1
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
@@ -3514,7 +3519,7 @@
 14
 </td>
 <td style="text-align:center;">
-1
+0
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
@@ -3522,7 +3527,7 @@
 15
 </td>
 <td style="text-align:center;">
-0
+1
 </td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
diff --git a/inst/NEWS b/inst/NEWS
index 8ee3575..e76f4f5 100644
--- a/inst/NEWS
+++ b/inst/NEWS
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 * Lowered R version requirement to R 3.1.0
 
-* Added testthat (#28, thank you @wibe)
+* Added testthat (#28, thank you @wibeasley)
 
 * For all HTML table functions, changed reading method from `xml2::read_xml` to
 `xml2::read_html` plus some extra steps to avoid errors when HTML contents
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 
 * Add `repeat_header_method` in kable_styling (#25)
 
+* Fixed a bug in `position` in `kable_styling()` (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45378664/kableextra-rmarkdown-tables-aligning-grouping-row-labels-and-footnotes)
+
 
 kableExtra 0.3.0
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