In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7 Jan 2008 Tim Hill wrote:
> > IIRC there are only three (now obscure) tags which are obsolete and > > therefore not meant to be supported; all are replaced by <pre> which > > itself is, er, little used I suspect. > Actually I use <pre> quite a lot particularly on what's new/history > pages because it saves a lot of bother typing in lots of table tags. If you structure the contents of a table physically across the page in, say, StrongEd, it's possible to mark the entire block and insert row and cell tags down the entire page in a one line edit. Using a macro inserter saves typing <table...> too. HTML³ is good for tables. > > Of course, bgcolor in the headers has a different effect to bgcolor > > in the cells or rows, as my example should have illustrated. > What do you mean by "the headers"? I didn't think your example had any > table header cells. You're right, it didn't. And I didn't mean headers in the literal sense of <th> but okay... <html><head></head><body> <table bgcolor="red" cellspacing="16"> <tr bgcolor="green"> <td> well, </td> <td bgcolor="yellow"> hello </td> <td> world </td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" bgcolor="blue">a footer header</th> </tr> </table> </body></html> > I have noticed that different browsers treat the cell spacing in > different ways if you put a bgcolor attribute in the table or row tag. > Sometimes the colour is applied to the whole table or row unless > overridden and other times it is only applied inside the cells. It depends where the bgcolor is placed which I thought is where we came in. But yes, the placing of stuff like tables does vary (as on an old W98 laptop on which an old MIE completely screwed up the placing of the timeline on Radio Times today). -- Tim Hill, www.timil.com
