- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:56:09 +0100
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
*Michael Day*:
>
>> 2) Allow columns to be introduced explicitly via CSS, probably as a
>> pseudo-class - such as td:column( n ) - and let this pseudo-element do
>> the proper counting that accounts for colspan.
>
> There is a subtle distinction here between a :column pseudo-class and a
>::column pseudo-element, which will affect the way this works.
Whether it would be a pseudo-class or -element, you had to introduce the same
for rows, because there may be XML applications to be styled by CSS, that form
tables column-wise and not row by row, e.g.:
<table>
<col><td>A</td><td>B</td></col>
<col><td>C</td><td>D</td></col>
</table>
A | C
--+--
B | D
Actually, I wish XHTML allowed both.
Received on Friday, 12 December 2003 08:56:38 UTC