RE: [WSG] Techniques for Styling Columns in Tables?

2004-08-16 Thread Geoff Deering
Hi, Thanks for all your suggestions, and sorry for not seeing that entry a few days back. I did try using COLGROUP and COL, but I couldn't get it to work. Is this because it is poorly supported? Russ's example does the job great. I always try to find ways of doing such things without adding un

Re: [WSG] Techniques for Styling Columns in Tables?

2004-08-16 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
we talked about colgroups just the other day, i think http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.4.1 Patrick Geoff Deering wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any reference for applying styles to columns in tables in a semantically correct way, without having to code class attr into each TD.

Re: [WSG] Techniques for Styling Columns in Tables?

2004-08-16 Thread russ - maxdesign
Geoff, This was sort-of answered a few days ago, but it depends on the degree of styling needed. Ideally you could use descendant selectors - depending on your specific need. With the use of correct table elements like th, thead, tbody, tfoot etc you can style individual slabs of tables to look di

Re: [WSG] Techniques for Styling Columns in Tables?

2004-08-16 Thread Justin French
I asked the same question about 3 days ago -- see "applying styles to the 3rd column of a table" Justin On 17/08/2004, at 10:24 AM, Geoff Deering wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any reference for applying styles to columns in tables in a semantically correct way, without having to code class attr in

[WSG] Techniques for Styling Columns in Tables?

2004-08-16 Thread Geoff Deering
Hi, Does anyone have any reference for applying styles to columns in tables in a semantically correct way, without having to code class attr into each TD.? Can it be done? Geoff ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud p