Tables: Friend or foe? http://www.webdevlounge.com/html/tables-friend-or-foe/ Relax and discuss Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:44:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 NatalieMac http://www.webdevlounge.com/html/tables-friend-or-foe/#comment-185 NatalieMac Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:49:34 +0000 http://www.webdevlounge.com/?p=77#comment-185 <blockquote>A suggestion: remove border, cellspacing, and cellpadding attributes from the table tag. This is presentational goop that you can easily style using CSS.</blockquote> Actually cellspacing cannot be set using CSS and has to still appear in the markup. The rest can (and should) be moved to the CSS.

A suggestion: remove border, cellspacing, and cellpadding attributes from the table tag. This is presentational goop that you can easily style using CSS.

Actually cellspacing cannot be set using CSS and has to still appear in the markup. The rest can (and should) be moved to the CSS.

]]> JD http://www.webdevlounge.com/html/tables-friend-or-foe/#comment-172 JD Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:57:17 +0000 http://www.webdevlounge.com/?p=77#comment-172 Hurray! Finally someone with a brain talks about the use of tables. I wanted to get around to posting about this. To be honest I thought I would have hundreds of only coders jump on my back. lol Hurray!
Finally someone with a brain talks about the use of tables.
I wanted to get around to posting about this.
To be honest I thought I would have hundreds of only coders jump on my back. lol

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]]> Jeff http://www.webdevlounge.com/html/tables-friend-or-foe/#comment-167 Jeff Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:13:32 +0000 http://www.webdevlounge.com/?p=77#comment-167 A suggestion: remove border, cellspacing, and cellpadding attributes from the table tag. This is presentational goop that you can easily style using CSS. A suggestion: remove border, cellspacing, and cellpadding attributes from the table tag. This is presentational goop that you can easily style using CSS.

]]> Thomas http://www.webdevlounge.com/html/tables-friend-or-foe/#comment-163 Thomas Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:21:37 +0000 http://www.webdevlounge.com/?p=77#comment-163 Well commented Markus. Although, I would argue the scope="col/row" attribute only needs to be used where the meaning of that particular header is ambiguous. For example, if a header was present in the top left of a table. Well commented Markus.

Although, I would argue the scope=”col/row” attribute only needs to be used where the meaning of that particular header is ambiguous. For example, if a header was present in the top left of a table.

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