Thanks, Eric. It was just so nice when I had stripped away a ton of code and had all these cells with no classes assigned or inline styling or anything (literally just: <td>X</td>, whereas the old version that somebody else coded looked like <td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="E1E4E4"><span class="x">X</span></td>) and it worked, and worked beautifully, but only in IE. I'm tempted to keep my coding how it is now because they told me when I started here the usual thing: "As long as it works in IE . . . " Christian -----Original Message----- From: Eric A. Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Sent: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:46:38 -0500 Subject: Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP
At 8:32 PM -0500 11/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >So the only way to bold and center all the text in every cell of a >particular column is to add those rules to every cell? (Sounds like bad >coding to me.) Or to pretend that they are header cells when they >aren't? (Sounds like bad coding to me.) No, though that is one way. The other way is to class all of the cells that share a column, and style via that class. A simple example: <table> <tr> <td class="city">New York</td> <td class="amnt">$6,123</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="city">Boston</td> <td class="amnt">$5,627</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="city">Cleveland</td> <td class="amnt">$7,111</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="city">Chicago</td> <td class="amnt">$5,966</td> </tr> </table> Now you can style each column uniquely. Yes, the city names could probably be th element with scope="row", and then you could dump all the class names for this example, but pretend it's a table with more than two columns. Also, the markup there isn't very accessible, but it's good enough to illustrate the point I'm making. I hope. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
