On Friday 09 December 2005 21:53, Chris wrote:
> I believe, for IE (though I haven't tested it) this would work:
>
> table.table1 > tbody > tr > td { css here; }
How I wish this would work.
it doesn't handle the parent>child at all. I've tested it. found it to be good
to use to -fix- other problems.
do a few css changes.. then fix it for the other browsers using this approach.
>
> I think IE assumes a tbody, even when there isn't one specified.
>
> table.table1 td { css here; }
hmm.. never tried doing this approach before. thanks ;)
>
> Would also do fairly well, but , since this would apply to all tds
> within the table tag (even the cells of any embedded tables) may require
> some creative spefification of values to work properly
>
> Chris
>
> Stephen Leaf wrote:
> >Not IE friendly but you could always do
> >
> >table.table1>tr>td { css here; }
> >
> >IE will simply ignore it.. even if you set other rules that it _does_
> >understand. :)
> >
> >On Friday 09 December 2005 21:07, Curt Zirzow wrote:
> >>On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:16:32PM -0500, 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.
> >>
> >>well, i try to only use tables when I present tabular data, i
> >>wonder mabey if i'm a cousin or something. And, yes, it is a bit OT.
> >>
> >>>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:
> >>
> >>The thing is, well, consider how frustrating it was to make a
> >>complicated table of data.
> >>
> >>I think CSS appears to be complicated cause it has to interact with
> >>HTML in wich people tend to belive that HTML is too output: layout,
> >>markup, and presentation.
> >>
> >>HTML and CSS are two sperate languages. HTML/CSS is going/has been
> >>more leaning towards the concept of XML/XSLT. Where, the html (xml)
> >>is the data and the CSS (xslt) is how to present it. I always use
> >>this site to show the power of css and how html is rather
> >>unimportant for presentation but for data structure:
> >>
> >> http://www.csszengarden.com/
> >>
> >>>.t {
> >>> font-size: small;
> >>> border-bottom: 1px lightgrey solid;
> >>> border-right: 1px lightgrey solid;
> >>>}
> >>
> >>Anyway... Change the definition to:
> >>
> >> table.t td, table.t th {
> >>
> >>And Add:
> >>
> >> table.t th {
> >> text-align: left;
> >> }
> >>
> >>>and add a class="t" to EVER SINGLE TH and TD tag like:
> >>>
> >>> echo "<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">";
> >>
> >>Assign the class of 't' to the table.
> >>
> >>> 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>";
> >>
> >>techincally i would define these as <th>'s they are headers for the
> >>data set.
> >>
> >>> 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/>";
> >>
> >>and here you just have <td>
> >>
> >>HTH,
> >>
> >>Curt.
> >>--
> >>cat .signature: No such file or directory
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