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

Bill Mason evolt at accessibleinter.net
Wed Jun 12 10:27:02 CDT 2002


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.

Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
evolt at accessibleinter.net
http://www.accessibleinter.net/





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