Regarding the col element, the theory was that you would-be able to use it as a shorthand for all cells within it, thus defining colours, typography etc by implicit table structure rather than chucking class names on all cells, using adjacency selectors, or somesuch.
In practice, browser support is — even now — terrible. Regards, Barney Carroll (+44) 742 9177 278 On 28 Sep 2011, at 02:55, Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Philippe. Besides simple html emails, I haven't used a table in > a long time. I'll dig into border-collapse and spacing. > > For the <col> element, it seems that besides passing the validator, > it's kinda the same as setting widths on <th>s or <td>s, no? Adding a > "row" of <col>s - extra markup - just to set widths. What am I > missing? > > As for the long percentage amount, I was merely following steps from > Ethan Marcotte's book for creating a flexible layout. Who am I to > argue with him? It was copy/paste from a calculator. Seems a bit nerdy > maybe, but it causes no harm. > > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh <e...@l-c-n.com> wrote: >> >> On Sep 28, 2011, at 5:55 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: >> >>> The html errors i can live with. I do not know how to do cellspacing >>> with CSS >> >> border-collapse & border-spacing >> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#borders >> >> >>> and I think classing table columns to control width is kinda >>> silly. >> >> hmm. >> The <col> element ? >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#the-col-element >> width="59.2537329%" feels kinda silly as well. De gustibus et coloribus… >> >> Philippe >> -- >> Philippe Wittenbergh >> http://l-c-n.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > > Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | > ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@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/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
