[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the clarification. However, I still don't understand WHY a > page requires a doctype declaration (in my case HTML 4.0 > transitional) just to make a font-size style cascade from body > through to td.
I believe it's simply that quirks mode follows older browser behavior, where td's did not inherit styles from body, or anything else outside of their table. In standards mode, they do (correctly) inherit the styles. Look at your pages in Win/IE 5 or anything older to see it, regardless of doctype. This was also why, in the bad old days, every single table cell needed its own <font> tag - there was no way to set the style outside the table and have it be inherited. -- Martin Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
