- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:34:35 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com wrote:
>
> The mythical row="" and column="" attributes for the td tags would need
> to be calculated in another pass. But this would allow author
> column-styling along the lines of
>
> #exampletable td[column=~3]
> { font-weight: bold;
> }
This wouldn't work; it suffers from the same problem as the current model.
You need to do the cascade before you know what is a table, cell, row,
etc. With your model, how would you know what is a cell?
See http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1070385285&count=1 for details.
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