RE: HTML vs. CSS on the <table>

> [Original Message]
> From: <Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com>
>
> For example, consider a hypothetical

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> This would allow row/column styling trivially via constructs such as

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Except explicitly giving the cell indices for every single cell
is not trivial. 

For real tables, the use of colspan and rowspan outside of the
header cells is rare.  There are almost always better ways
to layout non-tabular content on a grid than tables if one is
using CSS.  That's one reason why a solution that requires
empty cells as placeholders for cells that use rowspan
and colspan doesn't bother me too much.

Received on Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:00:43 UTC