Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-10 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 8:32 PM -0500 11/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the only way to bold and center all the text in every cell of a particular column is to add those rules to every cell? (Sounds like bad coding to me.) Or to pretend that they are header cells when they aren't? (Sounds like bad coding to me.)

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-10 Thread Steve Clay
Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 10:01:21 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: .myclass {text-align: center} td:first-child+td+td {text-align: center} /* the 3rd column */ ***But***, and here IE is buggy again, you *cannot* group those selector, else IE doesn't recognise the .myclass selector. I

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-10 Thread christianz
PROTECTED]; css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:46:38 -0500 Subject: Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP At 8:32 PM -0500 11/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the only way to bold and center all the text in every cell of a particular column is to add those rules to every cell

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-10 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
Thanks, Eric. It was just so nice when I had stripped away a ton of code and had all these cells with no classes assigned or inline styling or anything (literally just: tdX/td, whereas the old version that somebody else coded looked like td align=center valign=middle bgcolor=E1E4E4span

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-10 Thread CJ Larson
The extra classes have relevant names, so you shouldn't feel that they are obstructing your quest for purity. I think the problem posed is that *every* td has the same thing, the same thing, the same thing, so why should a class have to specified 40 times (number pulled from a hat) to style

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-10 Thread Steve Clay
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 1:27:55 PM, CJ Larson wrote: Making a colgroup for this city *one* time and being done with it is the intuitive thing to do, but since it doesn't work... problem. Have you tried it? http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StylingColumns (Combination method) table

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-10 Thread Dan Kletter
Drawback is colgroup is only supported by IE and limited to width, border, background and visibility styles. (I know the original poster was designing for IE, but still...) I think Eric Meyer had the right idea. I wouldn't advise using adjacent sibling selectors. It's not very efficient.

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-10 Thread christianz
CJ Larson wrote: I think the problem posed is that *every* td has the same thing, the same thing, the same thing, so why should a class have to specified 40 times (number pulled from a hat) to style this one type of td? Now, if only one city td needed to be special, a class there would be

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-10 Thread CJ Larson
Have you tried it? http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StylingColumns (Combination method) (Sorry you get this twice Steve; I sent it off list accidentally the first time.) I was referring to colgroup as specified in the original post, not work-around methods (that consequently don't work

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-10 Thread Steve Clay
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 1:59:25 PM, Dan Kletter wrote: Drawback is colgroup is only supported by IE and limited to width, border, background and visibility styles. Thanks to it's non-standard layout engine IE doesn't have these limitations on styling via COL. Nor do CSS2 browsers styling

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-10 Thread CJ Larson
It's possible, and pretty simple. You just use the solution from the wiki, where you style the COL and IE picks it up, and use adjacent siblings for standards-complient browsers. This is what I'm trying to avoid, since I would rather not style for individual browsers, which means it would be

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 10 Nov 2005, at 9:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't hardly ever use these tags but I found they came in handy in my current assignment. However, in IE (not my favorite browser but I have to admit it's doing what I want to in this instance) everything displayed the way I intuitively

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-09 Thread christianz
I don't hardly ever use these tags but I found they came in handy in my current assignment. However, in IE (not my favorite browser but I have to admit it's doing what I want to in this instance) everything displayed the way I intuitively imagined it would after adding style rules to

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-09 Thread James Bennett
On 11/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't hardly ever use these tags but I found they came in handy in my current assignment. However, in IE (not my favorite browser but I have to admit it's doing what I want to in this instance) everything displayed the way I intuitively

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

2005-11-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 10 Nov 2005, at 11:13 am, James Bennett wrote: I once read through a long and protracted Mozilla bug report on this which I'm currently unable to locate; IIRC the problem, conceptually, is that individual table cells are not actually children of the COLGROUP or COL; as a result, they