diff --git a/R/style_tabularray.R b/R/style_tabularray.R
index 5d2f7f55..a88711d7 100644
--- a/R/style_tabularray.R
+++ b/R/style_tabularray.R
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ style_tabularray <- function(x,
   # colspan requires cell level, so we keep the full settings DF
   if (is.null(colspan)) {
     if (is.null(i) && is.null(j)) {
-      settings <- unique(settings[, c("j", "tabularray"), drop = FALSE])
+      settings <- unique(settings[, c("i", "tabularray"), drop = FALSE])
     } else if (is.null(i)) {
       settings <- unique(settings[, c("j", "tabularray"), drop = FALSE])
     } else if (is.null(j)) {
diff --git a/R/style_tt.R b/R/style_tt.R
index 9ef92226..7e754951 100644
--- a/R/style_tt.R
+++ b/R/style_tt.R
@@ -115,6 +115,22 @@ style_tt_lazy <- function (x,
 
   # align can be "c" or "clrrlc"takes many possible values
   assert_string(align, null.ok = TRUE)
+
+  if (!is.null(align)) {
+    if (nchar(align) == 1) {
+      assert_choice(align, c("c", "l", "r"))
+    } else {
+      align_split <- strsplit(align, split = "")[[1]]
+      for (align_character in align_split){
+        assert_choice(align_character, c("c", "l", "r"))
+      }
+      if (is.null(j)) {
+        msg <- "Please specify the `j` argument."
+        stop(msg, call. = FALSE)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+    
   nalign <- if (is.null(j)) meta(x, "ncols") else length(j)
   if (!is.null(align)) {
     align <- strsplit(align, split = "")[[1]]
diff --git a/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/html-issue58.rds b/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/html-issue58.rds
deleted file mode 100644
index 0cd373d8..00000000
Binary files a/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/html-issue58.rds and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-align.txt b/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-align.txt
index 21ffd88f..ec6f1986 100644
--- a/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-align.txt
+++ b/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-align.txt
@@ -6,15 +6,10 @@
 {                     %% tabularray inner open
 colspec={Q[]Q[]Q[]Q[]Q[]},
 column{1}={halign=c,},
-cell{1}{1}={}{halign=c,},
 column{2}={halign=c,},
-cell{1}{2}={}{halign=c,},
 column{3}={halign=l,},
-cell{1}{3}={}{halign=l,},
 column{4}={halign=l,},
-cell{1}{4}={}{halign=l,},
 column{5}={halign=r,},
-cell{1}{5}={}{halign=r,},
 }                     %% tabularray inner close
 \toprule
 mpg & cyl & disp & hp & drat \\ \midrule %% TinyTableHeader
diff --git a/inst/tinytest/test-html.R b/inst/tinytest/test-html.R
index e294a8cf..f534ee64 100644
--- a/inst/tinytest/test-html.R
+++ b/inst/tinytest/test-html.R
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ tab <- tt(x, output = "html") |>
 expect_equal_to_reference(clean(tab), "_tinysnapshot/html-vectorized_color_j.rds")
 
 # Issue #58
-tab <- tt(iris[1:10,], output = "html", align = "ccccc") |> 
+tab <- tt(iris[1:10,], output = "html") |> 
+  style_tt(align = "c") |>
   group_tt(j = list("Sepal" = 1:2, "Petal" = 3:4))
 expect_equal_to_reference(clean(tab), "_tinysnapshot/html-issue58.rds")
 
diff --git a/inst/tinytest/test-latex.R b/inst/tinytest/test-latex.R
index 1e934dd4..edac0862 100644
--- a/inst/tinytest/test-latex.R
+++ b/inst/tinytest/test-latex.R
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ expect_snapshot_print(
 
 # Align
 expect_snapshot_print(
-  tt(x, output = "latex", align = "ccllr"),
+  tt(x, output = "latex") |> style_tt(j = 1:5, align = "ccllr"),
   label = "latex-align")
 
 # Themes