It does seem that the table elements were styled after html tables. That's where the column groups and table body elements come in: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_colgroup.asp http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_tbody.asp
I think too much effort was made to style TLF after html… On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:20 AM, Harbs wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2013, at 7:29 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > >> >> >> On 12/4/13 6:40 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I didn't explain myself very well here. >>> >>> My point is that TLF elements inherit from their parents and we'd get >>> that inheritance from the rows for free if cells are children of rows. >> Yup, so if you set background color on the row it should cover the margins >> and padding between cells of that row, right? > > Makes sense to me. Although, html table seem to not work like that. The > background color is only for the cell area. > >> I don't know how it is done in the browser. If you specify a row with a >> blue background and the next row has red background but a cell in the blue >> row has rowSpan=2 does the blue in that cell cover the red? > > Good question. I just tried and the red is replaced with blue. >> >>> >>> On Dec 4, 2013, at 4:38 PM, Harbs wrote: >>> >>>> If anything table/row/cell gives more flexibility. >>> >> >
