Writing direction in tables

• From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
• Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:57:29 -0400
• To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
• Message-Id: <4.1.19990428113543.00ccfcc0@pop.tiac.net>

http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS-19990412/#tables
4.5 Tables

Bullet 4 says
A linear sequence is usually generated by reading a row left to right and proceeding each cell with the label of its column. 

I find no mention of change to writing direction. 

The writing direction for a table may be reversed, as part of 
%i18n. 

For right-to-left languages, the cell order in a row is also
right-to-left. That can be recognized in the table attribute dir="rtl".

The writing direction may be inherited from its presence on body,
or most any ancestral element of table.



Regards/Harvey Bingham

Received on Wednesday, 28 April 1999 11:57:35 UTC