Re: [css-d] aligning data in large tables

2007-03-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > >> td:first-child+td+td+td {text-align:right;} will select the 4th >> column in good browsers (including IE7). >> For IE 6, you need to use the col element. >> >> > colgroup> >> >> col.al

Re: [css-d] aligning data in large tables

2007-03-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > td:first-child+td+td+td {text-align:right;} will select the 4th > column in good browsers (including IE7). > For IE 6, you need to use the col element. > > > > col.alignRight {text-align:right;} > > Note that you have to put the 2 selectors

Re: [css-d] aligning data in large tables

2007-03-08 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 9, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Rolf Mortenson wrote: > I assume the good browsers don't recognize text- > align for ? No, they don't, nor should per css 2.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#propdef-text-align http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q4 Somehow curiously, per HTML 4.01, the col

Re: [css-d] aligning data in large tables

2007-03-08 Thread Rolf Mortenson
> td:first-child+td+td+td {text-align:right;} will select the 4th > column in good browsers (including IE7). > For IE 6, you need to use the col element. > >colgroup> > > col.alignRight {text-align:right;} > > Note that you have to put the 2 selectors on separate lines, _not_ > grouping th

Re: [css-d] aligning data in large tables

2007-03-08 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:30 AM, Rolf Mortenson wrote: > What is the optimal way to align data in a very large table? - let's > say you've got a few thousand rows, and 10 columns, and you want data > in 3 of those columns to be aligned right (the rest align left). Is > it preferable to give each td in

[css-d] aligning data in large tables

2007-03-08 Thread Rolf Mortenson
What is the optimal way to align data in a very large table? - let's say you've got a few thousand rows, and 10 columns, and you want data in 3 of those columns to be aligned right (the rest align left). Is it preferable to give each td in those columns a class -- ? or is it better to use the