Re: CSS and Tables

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table, tr, th, td, p, { (note there is no dot in front of the class name!)
	font-size: small;
	border-bottom: 1px lightgrey solid;
	border-right: 1px lightgrey solid;
}

and yo don't ned to add class=t any more

:)

similar for input, body, p, a...

-afan

On Friday 09 December 2005 20:16, Michael B Allen wrote:
> This question is a little OT but no doubt everyone and their brother is
> generating tables here so heres my question.
>
> I'm a little frustrated with CSS. Sure I can define styles for TH, TD,
> and so on. But mildly sophisticated pages are buried in tables within
> tables. Specifying global styles for these tags is useless. Likewise I
> can define a class like:
>
> .t {
>     font-size: small;
>     border-bottom: 1px lightgrey solid;
>     border-right: 1px lightgrey solid;
> }
>
> and add a class="t" to EVER SINGLE TH and TD tag like:
>
>   echo "<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">";
>   echo "<tr><td class=\"t\">ID</td><td class=\"t\">Username</td><td
> class=\"t\">Name</td><td class=\"t\">Email</td><td
> class=\"t\">Options</td><td class=\"t\">Date</td>"; while ($row =
> mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
>       echo "<tr><td class=\"t\">$row[0]</td> <td class=\"t\">$row[1]</td>
> <td class=\"t\">$row[2]</td> <td class=\"t\">$row[5]</td> <td
> class=\"t\">$row[6]</td> <td class=\"t\">$row[7]</td> <tr/>"; }
>   echo "</table>";
>
> but that is a total waste of bandwidth and typing. Also, it's just ugly.
>
> What I *want* to do is define a class for TR or TABLE or better still
> just add a DIV around the entire section I want to style and have it
> affect the encosed region. What does the "cascade" in CSS stand for?
>
> So can anyone recommend a method to this maddness?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

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