i see! thanks for such an educational answer. i still don't necessarily
understand all the reasoning in there. but i can see that there *is*
reasoning in there. and i'm starting to see that these things can be
looked up. cheers! -josh
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> 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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