Re: Alignment Inheritance in HTML 4.01 Tables

Christian Roth <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:49:03 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.html.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 01.12.2011, at 10:00, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
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> Ian Hickson wrote:
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>> This is fixed in the contemporary HTML specification. There's no =
longer
>> any "inheritance" of attributes on<table>. In particular, style=3D""
>> definitely is not inherited in this manner.
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> So in :
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> 	http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/tests/H5P-TIT.html
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> would you assert that Seamonkey 2.5 is failing to following the =
provisional specification ?
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> Screenshot at :
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> 	=
https://picasaweb.google.com/Chaa006/ScreenCaptures02?authkey=3DGv1sRgCLGY=
uKnM4cuwjQE#5681081683579589490

this "inheritance" is not on the 'style' attribute *value*, but stems =
from the inheritance rules of CSS, so it's a completely different issue =
from the one fantasai and I have raised. Painting the text in your =
example red is correct, but has nothing to do with HTML attribute value =
inheritance.

-kris=