3.2 tables and the width attribute

• From: Charles Peyton Taylor <CTaylor@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil>
• Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 10:17:51 -0800
• Cc: www-html@w3.org
• Message-Id: <s19317df.042@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil>

I remember some discussion about the percent symbol
screwing things up in SMGL, but I notice that in 
the HTML 3.2 overview Width="80%" is used.  It makes
sense that the percent symbol is okay within 
quotation marks, but other values for attributes 
can often drop the quotation marks.

IE:
<img height=10 width=20 >
or 
<img height="10" width="20" >

so, is the rule that if you use the percent symbol
in the value of the width attribute of the table
element, you must enclose the value in quotation marks?

IE:
<table Width="100%"> </table>
but not
<table Width=100%> </table>

Received on Friday, 10 May 1996 13:13:27 UTC