Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/29/25 11:28

|-|erc wrote:

> "David Dorward" <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote in
> : |-|erc wrote:
> :
> : > : height attribute is deprecated,
> :
> : > stop giving phony advice.
> :
> : That wasn't advice, it was a statement[1]. The advice "don't use the height
> : attribute" could be implied from it, but wasn't actually stated.
> :
> : "Don't use the height attribute" is, however, good advice in this instance,
> : and is certainly not phony (unlike your name ("Pipe dash pipe erc"!) and
> : email address).
> :
> :
> : [1] Not actually a correct one as it happens, HTML didn't have a height
> : attribute for <tr> elements in the first place, so such an attribute
> : couldn't be deprecated.
>
> he said height, not <tr height>. and if you claim height is deprecated cite something,
> because I've never heard such a total figment of anyones imagination like yours. maybe its a tumor?

Pardon but no, you Herc said '<tr height=50>'

http://www.message-id.net/4343d2ba$0$13403$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreenews.net

I misread your TR as TH (Table Heading) which like TD (Table Data) use
to allow a height attribute, but is now deprecated in HTML 4.01

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#edef-TD

Ready for a MRI now are we? ;-)

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