- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:58:59 +0000
- To: "Donald H White" <writer@jrtcllc.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On 23 Jan 2014, at 6:22, Donald H White wrote: > The errors reported by the HTML 5 Conformance Checker for > <http://battlefieldspost144.net/> http://battlefieldspost144.net/ seem > to be > strange and a little out of order. > The common advice is to use CSS. The site uses CSS - lots and lots of > CSS > documents and declarations. It also uses obsolete presentational markup. > The site uses a common CMS (Joomla); the site is > not hand-coded. Content Management Systems permit, even require, > administrators and content developers to use flexibility and configure > elements, such as tables, to fit the design. A good CMS will provide means for authors to achieve the effects they want using modern approaches rather then those from the 1990s. > Are table alignment, image border, cell padding, cell spacing > declarations > obsolete? In HTML they are. CSS has replacements for all of them (and has done for over 15 years). > Must all <td> elements be the same width? No. CSS has many selectors and combinators other than the type selector, so you can apply different widths to different cells with CSS. -- David Dorward http://dorward.co.uk/
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