RE: Style attributes in elements?

> > Along the same lines, can we persuade  Tidy to convert
>> element  height and width attributes into their stylesheet
>> equivalent?
>
>Tidy could of course be made to do that, but remember that the height and
>width attributes for IMG *are* in the HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 Strict DTDs
>(it's the alignment and border stuff that's been taken out).
>
>What's that old saying -- God was able to create the world in just 6 days,
>because he didn't have an installed base to contend with.  ...

Ah   the installed base!   Still  height and width can be invoked via the
stylesheet, although whether any browser would support this is an
interesting question. I think I tried once with Netscape 4 and it did not.
Although Netscape 6 has recently been heavily criticised for not adhering
to the W3C standards, it normally does a pretty good job.
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Henry Rzepa. Imperial College, Chemistry Dept.
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Received on Sunday, 12 November 2000 05:16:11 UTC