Boris Zbarsky wrote:
Jeff Schmidt wrote:
Column groups allow authors to create structural divisions within a table. Authors may *highlight this structure through style sheets* or HTML attributes (e.g., the rules attribute for the TABLE element)[emphasis added].
Yeah. And the stylesheet spec says <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q4>:
The following properties apply to column and column-group elements: 'border', 'background', 'width', 'visibility'
Oh, ok. Hmm, would really be USEFULL to be able to apply most of the 'generic' stylesheets like text-align, vertical-align, font, color and other types of styles to column groups. But, I guess that's not part of the specs (maybe it could be part of a future spec?)
So you can't align via columns anyway, in CSS.
That said, we don't even support those four yet because it's the _one_ of the very few places in CSS where style applied to a node needs to be applied to random nodes that are not its children (the only other case I can think of the the body background mess, and that's hard enough to do in itself; the table stuff would be much more difficult).
Well, I would guess once you guys figure out a mechanism to allow you to do this for those four specified in the standards, that should the standards expand that list in the future, it should be pretty easy for you guys to support that expansion.
