- From: <Kris@meridian-ds.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:55:20 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
Sure, but the nth-child IS the column. It's not stated as such, but that
IS what it is in this case.
I've always felt that Tables should have been organized by columns and not
rows to begin with, but it's much too late for that. And we can't really
organize by both. The standard it rows, and it's what we've got. The
truth is that the nth-child should style the columns of those rows. And
this is thinking columnerly (is that a word?).
Kris
>Shouldn't the solution closely match the congnitive map that people
>use in their head? They don't style nth-child's, they style columns.
>This kind of thing is why a lot of people have trouble initially with
>CSS and even non-intially.
>
>Orion Adrian
>
>>On 6/22/05, Kris@meridian-ds.com <Kris@meridian-ds.com> wrote:
>
> > The only valid properties for table-column type elements
> > <a href
="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CSS21-20050613/tables.html#q4">17.3
> > Columns</a> are 'border', 'background', 'width', and 'visibility'.
>
> > Additionally these elements should support 'color', and the various
> > 'text', 'font' and 'align' properties. All of the supported properties
>
> >I agree these should/must be supported.
> >As we move away from tables being used for layout and start using tables
> for
> >their intended purpose which is to display data, CSS2.1 and (X)HTML
> quickly
> >prove inadequate. Try highlighting a column in a table and you find the
> code
> >required bloated, complex and unintuitive. How much easier would it be
to
> >change the columns colour property?
> >
> >Tables by their nature consist of elements grouped by columns. These
> element
> >properties will have to be supported at some point so let's get the ball
> >rolling :-)
>
> Can't you just use an :nth-child for tds in a tr?
>
> tr:nth-child(1) {
> background-color:#lime;
> }
>
> Just specificy what you want the colors to be inside of nth-child, and
move
> on with life. This should allow you to color any column you please.
> Course, the requires nth-child support but yeah... css will do it with
> ease.
>
> Kris
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