[Bug 11812] The align attribute on the td and th elements should be conforming

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11812

--- Comment #11 from Jukka K. Korpela <jukka.k.korpela@kolumbus.fi> 2011-06-25 08:10:35 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> I'm still wondering...
> Is that difficult to write:
> <td class="someClass center">something</td>
> or
> <td class="center">something</td>

Ease of writing is not the issue. It is not difficult to write, say, <td
class="symbol">.

It might be an issue to people using authoring tools that let them center cells
in a column with a single click so that the tool generates align="center"
attributes and has no simple way of adding a class attribute in all cells of a
column.

Any use of class attributes for something means that you give up every hope of
achieving a particular result when style sheets are not used.

Would it be too practical to mention what happens when you copy and paste a
table from an HTML document onto Word or Excel? Style sheets are lost, but
align attributes get mapped to properties of cells.

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Received on Saturday, 25 June 2011 08:10:37 UTC