- From: Greg Whitworth <gwhit@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:06:28 +0000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
> 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
I had a feeling it was for backwards compat reasons, just don't like the inconsistencies :)
Thanks.
Greg
Received on Friday, 13 June 2014 16:06:59 UTC