On Aug 13, 2004, at 3:31 pm, scott parsons wrote:
you can but only in IE due to IE having some weirdness occuring in the way they layout the page.
BUT
if you style the columns using the IE method, and style the third td (td+td+td etc) which will be understood by most modern browsers you should be able to get the column styled for everybody.
perhaps not the best way to go about things but it will work
You can apply a background-colour via the <col> element in *all* modern browsers [1]. Mozilla (prior to 1.7) and Firefox (pre 0.9) didn't support this due to inconsistencies in the css2 specs. The discussion has been settled/clarified with the release of CSS2.1 CR, and it is now implemented in Firefox0.9+ and Mozilla 1.7+.
(I don't have the bugzilla number handy on this, sorry).
<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q4>
On a side note, if a table contains more than 3 columns, then the syntax td+td+td will give a background colour to more than one column. You'd need to add td+td+td+td to override the previous one.
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