RE: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-13 Thread Andrew Edwards
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Re: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-13 Thread scott parsons
you can but only in IE due to IE having some weirdness occuring in the way they layout the page. BUT if you style the columns using the IE method, and style the third td (td+td+td etc) which will be understood by most modern browsers you should be able to get the column styled for everybody.

Re: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 13, 2004, at 3:31 pm, scott parsons wrote: you can but only in IE due to IE having some weirdness occuring in the way they layout the page. BUT if you style the columns using the IE method, and style the third td (td+td+td etc) which will be understood by most modern browsers you should

Re: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-13 Thread Justin French
On 13/08/2004, at 4:31 PM, scott parsons wrote: you can but only in IE due to IE having some weirdness occuring in the way they layout the page. BUT if you style the columns using the IE method, and style the third td (td+td+td etc) which will be understood by most modern browsers you should be

RE: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-13 Thread Michael Kear
Ah! That'll be why I didn't archive it. I figure life's too short to be fretting about IE and non-IE capabilities. I figure while I have the say-so on the design aspect of a site, I'll just not use anything that doesn't work in all browsers. i.e. if it's IE only, it doesn't get done. The vast

Re: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-12 Thread russ - maxdesign
Hi Justin, Not well supported by IE but you can do with adjacent sibling selectors: td+td+td { background: red;} Only the third column would display a red background Sample: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/jobs/css/adjacent.htm Russ Hi Folks, Is there any way (without ids or classes) to

Re: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-12 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
You may want to look at COLGROUPs http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.4 Patrick H. Lauke Justin French wrote: Hi Folks, Is there any way (without ids or classes) to target the 3rd (for example) column of a table to apply styles? What I'm hoping for is something like...

RE: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-12 Thread Michael Kear
I thought I read somewhere that you can style tables by columns, just as you can by rows and cells.In the article I read, the example showed TH across the top of the table, and the first column of cells was styled using some kind of column selector, not picking the first cell in each row.