- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 07:01:35 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 3:13p +0200 07/13/97, Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet wrote:
>
> I've always wondered why you'd want to set the width of
> *one* cell in a column. I can understand HEIGHT on a TR,
> but should WIDTH on, say, the last TD in a column apply
> to all earlier cells in that column too? That would
> require that the entire table is redrawn.
The reason you'd want to set the width of *one* cell in a column:
Browser A:
/------------ Browser Window A ------------\
<table width="100%">
+--------------+---------------------------+
| TD width=120 | |
+--------------+---------------------------+
Browser B:
/--------------------- Browser Window B ---------------------\
<table width="100%">
+--------------+---------------------------------------------+
| TD width=120 | |
+--------------+---------------------------------------------+
This allows the table to be scalable to different browser widths,
something I consider of *extreme* importance.
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Received on Sunday, 13 July 1997 10:03:25 UTC