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Posted by Stephen Leaf on 12/10/05 05:35
Not IE friendly but you could always do
table.table1>tr>td { css here; }
IE will simply ignore it.. even if you set other rules that it _does_
understand. :)
On Friday 09 December 2005 21:07, Curt Zirzow wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:16:32PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > This question is a little OT but no doubt everyone and their brother is
> > generating tables here so heres my question.
>
> well, i try to only use tables when I present tabular data, i
> wonder mabey if i'm a cousin or something. And, yes, it is a bit OT.
>
> > I'm a little frustrated with CSS. Sure I can define styles for TH, TD,
> > and so on. But mildly sophisticated pages are buried in tables within
> > tables. Specifying global styles for these tags is useless. Likewise I
> > can define a class like:
>
> The thing is, well, consider how frustrating it was to make a
> complicated table of data.
>
> I think CSS appears to be complicated cause it has to interact with
> HTML in wich people tend to belive that HTML is too output: layout,
> markup, and presentation.
>
> HTML and CSS are two sperate languages. HTML/CSS is going/has been
> more leaning towards the concept of XML/XSLT. Where, the html (xml)
> is the data and the CSS (xslt) is how to present it. I always use
> this site to show the power of css and how html is rather
> unimportant for presentation but for data structure:
>
> http://www.csszengarden.com/
>
> > .t {
> > font-size: small;
> > border-bottom: 1px lightgrey solid;
> > border-right: 1px lightgrey solid;
> > }
>
> Anyway... Change the definition to:
>
> table.t td, table.t th {
>
> And Add:
>
> table.t th {
> text-align: left;
> }
>
> > and add a class="t" to EVER SINGLE TH and TD tag like:
> >
> > echo "<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">";
>
> Assign the class of 't' to the table.
>
> > echo "<tr><td class=\"t\">ID</td><td class=\"t\">Username</td><td
> > class=\"t\">Name</td><td class=\"t\">Email</td><td
> > class=\"t\">Options</td><td class=\"t\">Date</td>";
>
> techincally i would define these as <th>'s they are headers for the
> data set.
>
> > while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
> > echo "<tr><td class=\"t\">$row[0]</td> <td class=\"t\">$row[1]</td>
> > <td class=\"t\">$row[2]</td> <td class=\"t\">$row[5]</td> <td
> > class=\"t\">$row[6]</td> <td class=\"t\">$row[7]</td> <tr/>";
>
> and here you just have <td>
>
> HTH,
>
> Curt.
> --
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