Posted by Stan McCann on 11/09/06 14:50

Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote in news:4rf100Fqs3n4U1
@mid.individual.net:

> vitay wrote:
>>
>> I think is this possible to do with CSS completely like table.
>> Table have width auto and if for example if first col of first row
>
> I think you missed the point - if you're talking rows and columns, it
> sounds like tabular data.
>
> Use the right tool for the job. For tabular data, that means HTML
> tables. CSS is the wrong tool.

You are incorrect with this statement and your statement shows a lack
of understanding as to the difference between HTML and CSS. Of course,
you want to use HTML tables for tabular data, but then if you wish your
table to look a certain way, you should use CSS to style the table to
look as you want just as you would with any paragraph, div, or
whatever.

You may be confusing the tables for layout argument in your above
statement. HTML is the right tool for the job of marking up a page.
CSS is the right tool for the job of styling the HTML.

Someone probably has already, but what the OP wants is possibly
something like this for his CSS:

table{ border:thin solid black }
td { border:thin solid black }

Maybe adding some attributes to the td such as:

td{ border:thin solid black; border-collapse:collapse;
empty-cells:show }



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