- From: Charles Reitzel <creitzel@rcn.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:41:47 -0500
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
At 06:35 AM 12/17/2002 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >* Charles Reitzel wrote: > >Ok, I see what you mean. Is this behavior specific to DIV or would it > >apply to other block level tags? What about PRE, BLOCKQUOTE, CENTER? > > > > Empty TD elements have meaning as placeholders. However empty TDs > > should probably be handled the same way as empty Ps: insert a > > This is my standard hand-coding practice to make tables w/ empty > > cells look OK. > >Empty <p> elements get dropped, empty <td>s should stay empty <td>s. >Inserting s is considered rather harmful. Interesting. I have never heard this before. Can you elaborate? What are the side effects? When generating HTML from web apps (Perl/JSP), I have always found it necessary to make sure all cells have something in them, either via rowspan or by adding . If you leave them empty, you get visual "holes" through the table to the background. If any styles are applied to the table, it looks weird. To see an example, have a look at the table for binaries on the Tidy home page. Admittedly, this is just a hack I have picked up and not based on any deeper theory. curious, Charlie
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