From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: mail@christianmoe.com
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>, Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>,
Org-mode ml <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>,
Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Aligning Columns in HTML Export Tables
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:08:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21BA9B33-4ACD-4B43-9EF8-84765DA7EC2E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC54506.2070501@christianmoe.com>
On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Christian Moe wrote:
> On 10/25/10 6:36 AM, Baoqiu Cui wrote:
> I am wondering if there
>> is any special reason to use "class" instead of "align". If not,
>> can we
>> change the elisp code to use "align"?
>
> I believe the "align" attribute is slated for obsoletion in HTML5,
> on the grounds that it's better handled by CSS.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html
>
> It's a reason to go with "class" instead. Not a compelling one,
> perhaps.
>
> My only strong opinion on this is that I absolutely agree with the
> choice not to set the "style" attribute locally on each table cell.
Hmm, butwe do now set the class in each cell. Is that any better?
- Carsten
>
> But Sebastian Rose's request that prompted it, /could/ equally well
> be addressed with the "align" attribute:
>
>> How about this (line-wrapped for readability):
>>
>>
>> <tr>
>> <td class="right">1</td>
>> <td class="left">bar</td>
>> <td class="left">text</td>
>> <tr>
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> <tr>
>> <td style="text-align:right">1</td>
>> <td style="text-align:left">bar</td>
>> <td style="text-align:left">text</td>
>> <tr>
>>
>> ??
>>
>>
>> Combined with the ways to add IDs and classes to tables, we could
>> then style the
>> columns better.
>>
>> I would like to set this for right aligned <td> tags as default:
>>
>> td.right { font-family:monospace;text-align:right; }
>
> Using the "align" attribute as follows,
>
> <tr>
> <td align="right">1</td>
> <td align="left">bar</td>
> <td align="left">text</td>
> <tr>
>
> Sebastian could achieve the same with CSS like
>
> td[align="right"] { font-family: monospace;}
>
> In the same way one could even use CSS to override the alignment
> specified by the "align" attribute, if for whatever reason this
> seemed like a good idea...
>
> One slight advantage of the "align" attribute over "class" is that
> it doesn't require the default style to contain the extra verbiage
> Carsten mentioned:
>
>> I have now in the default style:
>>
>> td, th { vertical-align: top; }
>> th.right { text-align:right; }
>> th.left { text-align:left; }
>> th.center { text-align:center; }
>> td.right { text-align:right; }
>> td.left { text-align:left; }
>> td.center { text-align:center; }
>>
>> Is there a way to write this more compactly?
>
> Yours,
> Christian
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-20 16:42 Aligning Columns in HTML Export Tables Jeff Horn
2010-10-20 17:16 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-10-20 19:04 ` Christian Moe
2010-10-20 20:11 ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-21 0:25 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-21 7:36 ` Christian Moe
2010-10-21 7:46 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-21 13:04 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-21 13:25 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-22 7:32 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-22 11:20 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-22 11:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-22 13:59 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-22 15:41 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-22 19:30 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-23 5:42 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-23 19:03 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-22 19:37 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-23 5:53 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-23 19:20 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-23 19:28 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-25 6:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-25 9:02 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2010-10-25 9:09 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-25 4:36 ` Baoqiu Cui
2010-10-25 8:51 ` Christian Moe
2010-10-25 9:08 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-10-25 13:13 ` Christian Moe
2010-10-25 13:22 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-25 14:55 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-25 20:41 ` Christian Moe
2010-10-25 21:52 ` Baoqiu Cui
2010-10-26 5:11 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-26 16:03 ` Baoqiu Cui
2010-10-25 13:43 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-25 20:04 ` Christian Moe
2010-10-25 21:39 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-26 5:12 ` Carsten Dominik
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