Phillip Graves ("Graves LCpl Phillip A") wrote to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 21 July 2003 in "CSS and Tables (possibly more)" (<mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
Although I don't particularly like them, I was asked to use them in a webpage for an overhaul, and I was wondering since they're designed to increase consistency over your pages, why aren't CSS shortcuts included for table formatting?
The www-talk list is "for technical discussion among those developing World Wide Web software". (<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk>).
If you want to criticize or augment CSS specifications, the www-style list is the place to send messages (<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>).
For how-to questions, an appropriate forum would be the CSS authoring newsgroup (<news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets>), css-discuss (<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/>), and so on.
With that said, let's address your question.
CSS level 2, which reached W3C Recommendation status in 1998, includes an entire chapter on table formatting:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html
CSS level 2.1, intended to supersede level 2, keeps a revision of that chapter:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html
I believe that these chapters and the properties defined in them provide the "shortcuts" which you are seeking.
If there's a problem in implementation of the CSS table model, that's an issue to raise with the vendors.
-- Etan Wexler.
