- From: Etan Wexler <etanwexler@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:29:07 -0800
- To: Graves LCpl Phillip A <GravesPA@IIMEF.USMC.MIL>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Phillip Graves ("Graves LCpl Phillip A") wrote to <mailto:www-talk@w3.org> on 21 July 2003 in "CSS and Tables (possibly more)" (<mid:16AA3A5F03C6BA47A60B93A80A394FBB2D4944@lejeune.usmc.mil>) wrote: > Although I don't particularly like them, I was asked to use them in a > webpage for an overhaul, and I was wondering since they're designed to > increase consistency over your pages, why aren't CSS shortcuts > included for table formatting? The www-talk list is "for technical discussion among those developing World Wide Web software". (<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk>). If you want to criticize or augment CSS specifications, the www-style list is the place to send messages (<mailto:www-style@w3.org>). For how-to questions, an appropriate forum would be the CSS authoring newsgroup (<news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets>), css-discuss (<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/>), and so on. With that said, let's address your question. CSS level 2, which reached W3C Recommendation status in 1998, includes an entire chapter on table formatting: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html CSS level 2.1, intended to supersede level 2, keeps a revision of that chapter: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html I believe that these chapters and the properties defined in them provide the "shortcuts" which you are seeking. If there's a problem in implementation of the CSS table model, that's an issue to raise with the vendors. -- Etan Wexler.
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