But there is a way. When CF8 generates the grid it writes out CSS ids and classes that you can use to style the grid. For example to right align the 5th column you can use this:

.x-grid-td-5 {text-align:right;}

The number you need to use in the class name does not always match up with the column. Sometimes I had to use .x-grid-td-8 to reference the 6th column for example. I think the number increments for each cfgrid item, even if you have display=no.

If you have more than one cfgrid on your page and only want to align the nth column in one of them, you can wrap the cfgird in a div with an ID so you can reference only that grid in your CSS.

For example, lets say you need the second particular element in an XML document. You might fetch some XML with cffeed and then use XMLSearch() to get all the matching elements. Then reference the second element of the resulting array, like this:

<cffeed source = "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=90210" xmlVar= "myXML">

<cfset Forecasts =
     xmlSearch(myXML,"//*[local-name()='forecast' and namespace-uri()='http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0']")>

<cfset theForecastIwant = Forecasts[2]>

In CF9 you can take a little shortcut, like you can in many other languages:

<cffeed source = "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=90210" xmlVar= "myXML">

<cfset theForecastIwant =
     xmlSearch(myXML,
     "//*[local-name()='forecast' and namespace-uri()='http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0']")[2]>

Nice! This probably happened when the team added the anonymous variables feature.

And if you are wondering, this works fine in Railo 3.1 but not in OpenBD 1.1.