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 [email protected] http://www.niof.net
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