- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 09:32:58 -0700
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote: > I'd like to throw a use case into this discussion. The attached HTML demo > is the least-bad way I'm aware of to do a table with angled column headers. > There are several pain points in here (transform: not affecting the layout > box, tables being Special) but the one that's relevant to this conversation > is: for the style to work correctly, you have to write vacuous divs, > > <td class="shift"><div>content</div></td> > <td class="skew"><div><div>content</div></div></td> > > I don't really care *how* CSS enables me to get rid of those vacuous divs, > but I think it definitely *should* be possible to do the styling I want > without them. For this to *actually* work correctly, it needs special-case handling, which has been discussed in the past with approval. ~TJ
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