Re: Inheritance of column attributes

Scott E. Preece (preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com)
Mon, 22 Jan 1996 16:44:03 -0600

From: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece)
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| The current draft says "Since the COL and COLGROUP elements have no
| content, they are not suitable for setting other style properties than
| borders."
|
| I don't think this is acceptable. CSS should specify that TD and TH
| elements inherit from both the SGML hierarchy (TABLE, THEAD|TBODY|TFOOT,
| TR) *and* from the COLGROUP and COL elements defining the column in
| which the cell occurs. The browser is already going to have to do the
| necessary work to trace that inheritance in order to get rules right, so
| we may as well allow the stylesheet author to use it as well. Styling
| of columns seems to me to be at least as useful as styling of rows. My
| own inclination would be to take column as "more specific" than row, for
| resolving conflicts, but either is OK so long as the spec says one or
| the other.
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Note that one particular form of inheritance I want to make sure of is
that an ID on a colgroup or col will select any of the cells in the
columns defined by the colgroup or col.


scott



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