At 7:08 PM -0500 2/15/99, Brent Eades wrote:
>On 15 Feb 99, Kathy E. Gill wrote:
>
>> >Drop the cols="2" everywhere, Kathy, and it will work just fine.
>>
>> thank you ... duh ... does anyone know *why* this is happening?
>>
>> One of the things I remember from HTML 4.0 documentation was "tell the
>> browser everything it needs to know ASAP to make it render stuff faster"
>
>Be that as it may, 'cols' is not an attribute for <table> in HTML
>4.0. There is a table element 'col', which itself takes various
>attributes, but no 'cols'.
>
>However, <frameset> can of course take a 'cols' attribute, although
>its value would be a comma-delimited list of widths, not a single
>number such as "2".
>
>'cols' can also be used to specify the visible width of a <textarea>.
ah -- typo ... wonder why it passed validation?
[mutter, it should be plural, since you're telling the browser how many
columns are in the table]
kathy
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