goldilox

Yes, it seems to be their MO to frustrate the standards that they don't own. I've been developing using Ff and testing occaisionally in IE - maybe I should do it the other way around!

Hello, hello & hello! Thanks, I'll point myself at the current specification. Although the column style inheritance "problem" still remains. I'm generating HTML reports (from a C++ app) and I'm trying to cut down the size of the HTML files and the increase the speed at which they load. Using CSS has greatly improved things so far! I only need support Firefox and IE 6, so any features currently supported and not likely to change are ok.

I just discovered that Firefox is actually doing the right thing according to the specification. I must say that the specification doesn't make sense to me in this regard. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q4 I think this means that the only legal way to override the cell alignment for a particular column is to specify the alignment in every <td> tag for that column. Does anyone know better?

Hi, I'm trying to create a table where some columns are right aligned. Code exerpts - Style definitions - thead.tableHeading1 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; } col.alignRight { text-align: right; } Partial table definition - <table border = 1 cellspacing = 0 cellpadding = 3> <colgroup> <col width = 80> <col width = 80 class = alignRight > </colgroup> <thead class =" tableHeading1"> <tr> <td colspan = 7 align = center>Summary <tr> <td>Bank <td>Usage </thead> etc... This is rendered as I would expect in IE; the second column is right aligned. In Firefox, the alignment specification in the col tag seems to be ignored and everything is left aligned. I have also tried using "align = right" and an inline style in the col tag, with the same result. The only way I can seem to get the correct alignment in Firefox is to specify the alignment in every <td> tag. I'm rather new to CSS, so I expect there's something wrong with my understanding, but I thought that the column style would override the table heading style (as it does in IE).