- From: Tim Bagot <tsb@earth.li>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 15:44:24 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Style Sheet mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, L. David Baron wrote: > However, the statements "the (rows/row groups) cover the whole table" > [1] makes it seem that the rows must also cover the vertical > cell-spacing (I think we seem to agree that they should cover the > horizontal cell-spacing). This seems wrong to me. I think it was > meant to imply only that every cell is in a row and in a rowgroup > (whereas the columns and column groups need not fill the whole table). > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#table-layers This sounds reasonable. However, looking more closely I find that the description of the border-spacing property in section 17.6.1 (<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#separated-borders>) says that the space between borders "is filled with the background of the table element". I suppose that one problem that would arise if rows covered horizontal spacing and columns vertical spacing would be what happens to the "diagonal" spacing - i.e. that space which would be covered neither by rows nor by columns. Tim Bagot
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