Re: Table Trouble Translation

"Peter Collinson" <bluescat (AT) optonline (DOT) net> wrote:

In moving away from Table formatting,

To me, it seems that you are replacing presentation HTML attributes in
a table element by CSS rules, _preserving_ the use of a table for
formatting. This might be reasonable for practical reasons, since CSS
positioning is still tricky and buggy. But you wouldn't me moving away
from table formatting; rather, getting deeper into it. :-)

But _why_ are you making the replacements? If it's just for the sake of
principle, it's probably futile or worse. If you have realized that CSS
is more flexible for styling a table, too, then fine - if you can make
real use of it.

I've hit a snag with the
"cellspacing" attribute in CSS.

In theory, you can replace it by the use of border-spacing when the
table has border-collapse: separate. But since e.g. IE 6 does not
support this, the HTML attribute is often a more practical choice. This
again raises the question what "translation" you are actually doing and
why.

What am I missing?

Well, at least you missed the chance of using a CSS checker to detect
errors in your style sheet before presenting it in public, and you
missed the chance of telling the URL of a demo so that we could have
seen the whole situation.

(HMTL "cellspacing" equates to CSS "margins," yes?)

No. What made you think so? It may have _similar effects_ in some
situations.

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