- From: <Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:18:50 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
> From: Ernest Cline [mailto:ernestcline@mindspring.com]
> Nope, the problem is that the CSS and HTML table models
> don't interact well. To get them working well together, it easier
> to modify HTML than to modify CSS.
For example, consider a hypothetical
<grid></grid>
tag that can contain various
<cell></cell> children.
<cell> has rows= and columns= attributes - these are space separated values
<grid id="examplegrid">
<cell rows="1" columns="1">A</cell>
<cell rows="1" columns="2">B</cell>
<cell rows="1" columns="3">C</cell>
<cell rows="2 3" columns="1">D</cell>
<cell rows="2" columns="2 3">E</cell>
<cell rows="3" columns="2 3">F</cell>
</grid>
might render as
+-----+-----+-----+
| A | B | C |
+-----+-----+-----+
| | E |
+ D +-----------+
| | F |
+-----+-----------+
This would allow row/column styling trivially via constructs such as
#examplegrid
cell[rows=~1]
{ font-weight: bold;
}
#examplegrid
cell[columns=~1]
{ color: green;
}
#examplegrid
cell[columns=~2]
{ border: 1px solid red;
}
etc.
Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902
Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer
perl -e"print join er,reverse',','l hack',' P','Just anoth'"
Received on Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:18:54 UTC