Re: Why can't I change height with <col width="50" height="100">?

Bernd Meier wrote:

Why has the value of height no consequences in the below example?

Becuase there is no height attribute for the col element.

Check with the HTML spec at http://w3.org/TR/html4/ and the Markup Validator
at http://validator.w3.org/

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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?

Scripsit Bernd Meier:

Is there another element for col to change the height?

No.

Or is there no possibility to do it because auf logical reseans?

One might say so. Why would you set the height of columns instead of
simply setting the height of the table?

Because if I would change the cell hights in one column I also have to
change
the cell hights of the next columns?

Pardon? Did you expect to change the height of each _cell_ in the
columns?

The practical way to make the cells in a column have the same width is
to use a class="..." attribute for the cell elements and to set the
height of the cells in a style sheet.

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