Thanks everyone. As always, lots of good info, but it seems to always come down to a back and forth on design where I work. I'm not a designer, just front-end dev. Design usually wins. So I am forced to struggle to pull off what someone else demands based on visuals.
Some day... Some day... Sent from my iPhone On Sep 28, 2011, at 3:35 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh <e...@l-c-n.com> wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Barney Carroll wrote: > >> 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 HTML 4, the <col> element was – unfortunately – specified without much > thought, analysis etc. Esp in the light of how HTML tables are structured and > constructed. As a result many of its attributes (per html4) are unusable and > not duplicatable in terms of css. > > CSS 2.1 only allows a very limited subset of properties that apply to the > <col> element. > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#columns > >> In practice, browser support is — even now — terrible. > Hmm - I might have missed something. Current crop of browser have a fairly > decent support for those properties that apply to this element. > > On Sep 28, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: > >> 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? > > Dunno, it won't help please the validator if you use the 'width' attribute, > using a class will work however. I prefer to have that row of cols at hand > for styling purposes (part. width) - imagine you style your first row of > cells and apply the width only to that first row, but then remove that first > row, without transferring the styling to another row… > It fits well in my workflow. YMMV. > >> >> 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. > > As I said: De gustibus et coloribus… > as a personal preference, I'd only specifiy a width for the 1st table-cell, > let the others adjust based on content and available space. > > Philippe > -- > Philippe Wittenbergh > http://l-c-n.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/
