Solution! Alternating table row colors (fun with CSS Expressions)

gdv1000 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com (Garmt de Vries) wrote:

Why not use <col> and set classes only once for every column?

And then? If you set <col class="foo">, how are you going to use the
class? Table cells are by definition subelements ("children") of <tr>
elements, never subelements of <col> elements. So if setting
..foo { ... }
seems to work, it should be regarded as a browser bug. This is of course
very inconvenient to authors.

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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela (AT) cs (DOT) tut.fi> writes:

gdv1000 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com (Garmt de Vries) wrote:
Why not use <col> and set classes only once for every column?

And then? If you set <col class="foo">, how are you going to use the
class? Table cells are by definition subelements ("children") of <tr
elements, never subelements of <col> elements. So if setting
.foo { ... }
seems to work, it should be regarded as a browser bug. This is of course
very inconvenient to authors.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html#table-layers seems to imply that
(provided the table row (groups) and cells have a transparent
background) the background colour from the col should be used.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html#q4 seems to agree.

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Chris