Re: [CSS2.1] col attributes: XHTML and CSS inconsistency?

Rainer Åhlfors wrote:
> Personally, I don't see what the problem would be to convert <col>'s to 
> CSS as part of parsing.
>  
> <col style="color: red;">
> <col style="color: blue;">
>  
> td:nth-child(1) { color: red; }
> td:nth-child(1) { color: blue; }
>  
> Or, am I missing something fundamental here?

Yeah. Colspans and rowspans. The third <td> in a row
is not always in the third column.

~fantasai