On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:44:48AM +0900, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > Every cell in the row has the same classname but I only want a different > > style for the first and last cells (It's a calendar). The way the > > template is written I have no way of applying a style to only some of > > the cells in the row. > > td:first-child, td:last-child { color: white; background: lime } ? > > > > >> I don't think you can use col as a selector, because no elements are > >> technically wrapped in it. > > > > As I said, I can style the *entire* col but I don't want the first two > > rows (whose cells do *not* have the stylename) to be styled. The whole > > point of 'col' is to be able to deal with a particular column. There > > ought to be a way to deal with *part* of the column. > > You can style an entire column, up to some point. Only a limited > number of properties apply tot he col element. > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#columns (this _may_ be enough > for your purposes though). > > A combination of both might help ?
Yes, that worked. Since a row's styling overrides a col's styling I can style the entire column and then re-style the top row. > PS - Do you have a url of what you attempt to do ? Might be easier to give > advice? At this point it's a test site so it's not really available to the public. I'm using the codeigniter calendar class to generate a calendar and it uses a template system that loops through each cell of a row so I have no way to get at code within that loop.. -- "Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark." -- Walter Lippmann, 1937 Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net http://www.niof.net ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/