Height attribute on TABLE (was Re: [thelist] Accesibility Tip)

[Kostal Design | Sebastian Kostal]

> At 08:16 AM 06/12/2002, you wrote:
>> What's up with the W3 validator? It tells me for example that the height
>> attribute for tables is not supported in 4.01 transitional. Can this be?
>
> Well, just read the spec and you'll see that there isn't a height attribute:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#edef-TABLE
>
> Height on TABLE was introduced by Netscape in version 1.1, but has never
> been part of any W3C HTML specification.

So should I have used the <td> tags to control height to conform? This seems
to be valid, but also depreciated. Why is this? Is tere a better way to
control table height?

Will pages conforming to the w3 validator's standards always render
correctly?

I have used the "background" attribute in some instances which is not
validated. It depreciates very well, but it does not conform to the w3c
specs. I don't think I should slavishly stick to the w3c recommondation in
this case. Any other opinions?

Thanks in advance,

Sebastian