[Bug 15100] Right-aligning a numeric table column is much more work than it should be

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15100

Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> 2011-12-08 09:04:10 UTC ---
This behavior is a consequence of the CSS table model:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html#columns

I have no idea where you got your information that "most" browsers honor
text-align on columns - *no* current browser does, to the best of my knowledge.
 I believe the last browser that did was IE6, because its table model wasn't
based on CSS.

The problem that you cite is being solved in Selectors 4 with the :col() and
:nth-col() pseudoclasses: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors4/#table-pseudos

Thus, there is nothing for HTML to do.

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Received on Thursday, 8 December 2011 09:04:13 UTC