On 6/5/07, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I understand you are right, and did from the start because I've
> experienced it myself (even though my argument's logic failed), but I still
> say it's an inconsistency. :)
>
> border= in HTML should equal border: in CSS. I understand they are different
> but to make them inconsistent would be one reason why people have a hard
> time with the "CSS or die" theory of late.
>
Border in HTML cannot be changed after all these years - it would
break millions of old pages - and adding new HTML attributes to
provide the much greater capabilities that CSS has would go against
the entire modern philosophy of content/structural
markup/presentational styling layers. Imagine what a pain it would be
if, in order to get an outer border (only) on a table using CSS you
had to set it for the table element and then unset it for each child
td and th element.
What browsers do when they encounter a presentational HTML attribute
is convert it to the nearest equivalent CSS.
So for <table border=1> (assums the default cellspacing of 2px) equates to:
table {border:1px outset; border-spacing: 2px;}
th, td {border: 1px inset;}
while <table border=1 celllspacing=0>
becomes
td,th {border: 1px solid;}
--
Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Hat 1: Development Engineer, Webfarm Ltd.
Hat 2: Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz
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