Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 01/13/08 22:14

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Bernd Meier" <ndkwinklask263
@yahoo.de> writing in news:fmdbv5$429$1@news.datemas.de:

>>> Why has the value of height no consequences in the below example?
>
>> Becuase there is no height attribute for the col element.
>
> Is there another element for col to change the height?
>
> Or is there no possibility to do it because auf logical reseans?
>
> Because if I would change the cell hights in one column I also have to
> change
> the cell hights of the next columns?
>

Because tables are for tabular data, there really is no reason for a
height attribute - rows expand/shrink to fit their contents, as it
should be. Authors got into the bad habit of using tables for
positioning content - but that is not what tables are for. HTML should
not be presentational - that's what CSS is for.

Unless you have a _very_ good reason for setting height, let the table
do what it supposed to do.

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