Re: colgroups

• From: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
• Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 09:33:47 -0700
• To: Manos Batsis <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>, www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <1220709321-46915287@psdbay.com>

From: "Manos Batsis" <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>
Subject: Re: colgroups
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:58 +0300

> Besides styling the thing with borders and such, I wanted to work some
> DHTML manipulation thingy using the DOM. Something like drag & drop. At
> first, I wanted to use styling as
>
> display:block;
> border:1px solid;
>
> To verify the ability of controlling the element. But it ignores me...
>
> I think colgroup as implemented in today's browsers, is just an
> algorithm that provides a shortcut for styling it's table cells and not
> an actual element.

Perhaps if you could post a complete example of the usage you discuss, we
could test your hypothesis.

Tantek

Received on Friday, 1 June 2001 12:33:41 UTC