snak detek+0r wrote:
> i did have
> vertical-align:top in my table{} css.
>
> what is it about the <table> element that doesn't accept this
> property?
It does. All elements have all properties. However, a property might
lack any effect on the rendering. In particular, the vertical-align
property affects, by definition, only inline elements and table cells.
> it seems it would at least be inherited by the <td>s?
The CSS specs say that the vertical-align property is _not_ inherited:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-vertical-align
If you set vertical-alignment on a <tr> element, the effects looks like
inheritance (from <tr> to <td> and <th>), due to peculiarities in table
formatting rules, described somewhat confusingly under "17.5.3 Table
height algorithms",
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#height-layout
But setting vertical-align on <table> has no effect (except in the
contrived case where you use vertical-align: inherit on inner elements,
and for some odd reason, even Firefox doesn't seem to support this;
that's probably because the implementation of the value inherit is
flawed).
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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