[thelist] How important is height when using tables?

Kasimir K evolt at kasimir-k.fi
Fri Jul 30 05:43:24 CDT 2004


Sorry, I'm feeling a bit pedantic today...

>>state a table and/or cell height? 
> The only thing I would say is that tables don't have a height attribute 
> in HTML, so whatever you're building isn't strictly speaking HTML.

This depends what HTML you are speaking of. If you ask Microsoft, then 
height attribute apllies to table (and td too):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/height_2.asp

And while deprecated since HTML 4.0, in HTML 3.2 TD has both width and 
height:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#table

Use the Source Luke ;-)
(or at least the Specs :-)

.k


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