- From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:26:41 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
Daniel Glazman wrote: > > fantasai wrote: > > > Re: column-child > > > > One thing I would really like to see is a way of selecting > > descendants of table columns. Since CSS is based on the > > document tree, that's not possible, but.. *sigh* ~_~ > > > > Your point was a known problem of table DTDs more than fifteen years > ago, fantasai... It's the general failing of a hierarchy. > > There is no real answer. Only one option is available : allow the style > language to have dual inheritance using an id/idref (or equiv.) present > in the markup... Idref from each cell to the column? You don't need anything special for that--just cell[attr=idref], since all that you're aiming for is to select the column's descendants. > Grif (and probably then Amaya) resolved that with hard-coded algos. > > This does not easily fit in the css model but I am going to think about it. Especially since being a table column depends on the stylesheet. =) Well, good luck! ~fantasai
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