Hi group
I was both depressed and happy, discovering in an article that <col> can
be used to style a column (I had long forgotten the tag's existence
:-)). I was depressed because I thought that it rendered the hours of
development on my database-to-markup - script that stresses the "active
column" on <http://visesangere.dk/viseopt.html>. I was happy to think of
the prettyer code I could achieve without an "extra" class on each <td>
in the "active" columns 40 rows...
SO I set out for extra exploration of the use, only soon to discover
1) the minor difference between HTML4 where no closing of the tag is
needed, and XHTML 1 where it (of course) has to be closed, and
2) that it did _not_ work as expected at all, I couldn't get my Mozilla
around to recognise my css along these lines ("col" is there for
illustrational purposes only, in my stylesheet there was only the id):
col #activecol td {
border... background...
}
Whereas something like:
col #activecol {
border... background...
}
worked fine - *as long as the property was not defined for the td* -
(which it will allways be in this table, as the changing background on
every second row is mandatory).
Aparantly (as I later found stated on
<http://learningforlife.fsu.edu/webmaster/references/xhtml/tags/table/col.cfm>)
col has no children, and I cannot blame my mozilla for not regarding the
td's as the col's children! :-(
So I can only use the col to define something that isn't already defined
in my td's as these will have higher specificity (acording to my tests)
Is this so - definitely, or have I overlooked or misunderstood something
here?
BTW: The best I can find on the matter on W3C is
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html>. I have seen
<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StylingColumns> and the link to
Hixie's log, explaining a lot of it.
I look in vain for HTML and XHTML recommendation links on
<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsefulResources>.
I wonder why, as proper HTML use is quite central on the list, would it
be wrong if I add the following links:
"HTML 4.01 Specification" <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/>,
"XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language"
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/> and
"XHTML 1.1 Element ( Tag ) and Attribute Reference"
<http://learningforlife.fsu.edu/webmaster/references/xhtml/tags/> with
the comment: "XHTML reference in some detail and with examples."
to the list of resources?
Best regards
Jesper Brunholm
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