The current draft says "Since the COL and COLGROUP elements have no content, they are not suitable for setting other style properties than borders." I don't think this is acceptable. CSS should specify that TD and TH elements inherit from both the SGML hierarchy (TABLE, THEAD|TBODY|TFOOT, TR) *and* from the COLGROUP and COL elements defining the column in which the cell occurs. The browser is already going to have to do the necessary work to trace that inheritance in order to get rules right, so we may as well allow the stylesheet author to use it as well. Styling of columns seems to me to be at least as useful as styling of rows. My own inclination would be to take column as "more specific" than row, for resolving conflicts, but either is OK so long as the spec says one or the other. scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.comReceived on Monday, 22 January 1996 16:24:12 GMT
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