Posted by Ask Josephsen on 01/10/06 15:00

ahh :)

I get your drift - thanks

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"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> skrev i en meddelelse
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>
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Ask Josephsen blurted out, atop a fullquote of
> which the salient part seemed to be:
>
>>>> td:first-child + td + td,
>>>> td:first-child + td + td + td ,
>>>> td:first-child + td + td + td + td {
>>>> text-align: right; }
>
>> Thank you for the discussion, very interesting. David, you caught my
>> problem nicely "...a table with a hundred rows and ten columns...".
>> My tables are rather big and has various needs for aligning each
>> column. My wish is to define how each column should align once for
>> each table and save as much markup as possible in each row. For this
>> the <colgroup> and <col> tags seems to be a fine solution - except
>> it does not really work in firefox.
>
> Wrong conclusion. It does not work *in CSS* (the cells are not
> descendants of the col/colgroup elements). Firefox is just doing its
> job (unlike some browser-like objects that one might mention).
>
> See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q4 to learn just how much
> (or how little) can be influenced by styling the col/colgroup
> elements.
>
>> The number of columns is fixed (different from table to table
>> though) so the stylesheet solution might be a solution.
>
> If most of the cells use a specific alignment then (provided you
> define your selectors sufficiently restrictively, e.g as above) you
> can define that to be the default alignment for a parent element (tr
> or table), and only define a different alignment for those columns
> which are exceptions.
>
> It seems to me, on the other hand, that an alternative approach is to
> omit the first-child condition, just coding selectors for td, td+td,
> td+td+td etc.
>
> There was a discussion in early November which led to these test
> documents of mine:
>
> http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/tests/poules.html
> http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/tests/poules2.html
>
> and their associated stylesheets. They're just working tests based on
> what the original poster had provided - nothing finished or polished,
> but they might illustrate what I'm getting at.
>
> In *that* case, if you don't code a selector for column 4, say, then
> col.4 is going to match the selector for column 3, rather than
> defaulting to the style for the row or table as a whole.
>
> h t h

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