[thelist] css styling of tables

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Hi Ben

What you can do is to style the entire table with one base style, then
apply different styles if any rows, cells or sub-tables vary from the base
style.

Take a look at the HTML and CSS for the evolt site, and see how it's done
there -
there's a commentary at
http://evolt.org/article/thelist/20/5816/index.html

Pretty much all of the site is styled with CSS applied to tables - here's
what it looks like without stylesheets (it's a NN3 screenshot):
http://www.evolt.org/evolt/images/88/evolt1_nn3_win.gif

Cheers
Martin


Subject:    [thelist] css styling of tables


i have been getting quite confused with styling tables using css.

previously, i have used html attributes such as bgcolor, but am trying
to move away from this towards supplying the table or maybe a tr or td
with a style that can be changed via css.

however, i have met with quite a bit of resistance on the cross-browser
front. i also am not sure whether to style a row, or each cell, or how
to style a column. i also got a bit confused with the border-collapse
issue as well - albeit with only a quick glance through the w3c
documentation.


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