On Wednesday 2006-08-23 18:40 +0100, Nick Fitzsimons wrote: > As the HTML 4 spec states that the width attribute applies to each > individual column spanned by the "COL" element, it follows that a CSS > width declaration must also apply to each individual column, rather > than to the group of columns, otherwise the two cases above would not > be equivalent.
This doesn't necessarily follow. There are cases where presentational attributes map to something that isn't in CSS, or is different from what CSS specifies. (Note, for example, that the span="2" doesn't map to anything in CSS.) However, this one happens to be specified the same way in both specs and implemented that way: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-CSS21-20060411/tables.html#q4 says: # The following properties apply to column and column-group elements: # [...] # 'width' # The 'width' property gives the minimum width for the column. (It's not clear that this part intentionally omitted "or column group".) http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/tables.html#adef-width-COLGROUP http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/tables.html#adef-width-COL both specify that widths on cols and colgroups apply per column. -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ > Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation
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