- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:18:17 -0400
- To: Greg Whitworth <gwhit@microsoft.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 6/12/14, 10:59 PM, Greg Whitworth wrote:
> An additional note, I find it odd that vertical-align default on a table cell in HTML is middle while on a CSS table cell it is baseline.
The default value of 'vertical-align' in CSS in general is baseline:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-vertical-align says:
Initial: baseline
In HTML, basically for backwards compat reasons with pre-CSS table
rendering, the UA stylesheet has:
thead, tbody, tfoot, table > tr { vertical-align: middle; }
tr, td, th { vertical-align: inherit; }
plus some bits that map "valign" attributes on certain table-related
HTML elements to vertical-align styles.
So if you do:
<tr valign="top">
and nothing else you will get vertical-align:top on all the cells in
that row. See
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html#tables
-Boris
Received on Friday, 13 June 2014 15:18:46 UTC