- From: Peter Fraterdeus <peterf@mail.dol.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 13:08:38 -0600
- To: www-style@w3.org
Hello-
I'm working on a book about web typography, and have run into a question that I can't resolve.
The issue is whether Table tags should have style properties. In particular, I'm designing an HTML spreadsheet presentation, where, in traditional publishing, a paragraph style would be established with 'tab-stops'. I can control the width of individual cells in an HTML table, but if I want to insert a multi-column row I have to hard-code it with a 'colspan' property. (Note that I'm not trying to 'fake' a page grid with tables, but to use them for what they're meant for ;-)
Should this work?...
table { font:12pt serif bold } /* is table the parent of tr and td? */
td { align:left; font:10pt sans } /* is font a property of a table cell? */
td.descr { colspan:2; font:serif bold }
td.detail { align:right }
or how about this idea
P.tab { tabstop:30 Left; tabstop:40 decimal; tabstop:50 right }
Sorry if this has been hashed over before. I haven't found anyone that can point me to references.
PF
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Peter Fraterdeus, designOnline, Inc.
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