Re: Alignment Inheritance in HTML 4.01 Tables

2011-12-01 13:09, Philip TAYLOR wrote:

>> 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.
>
> A subtle point, Kris, and one I had failed to appreciate.

It=E2=80=99s a point that is easily missed, but it=E2=80=99s essential. S=
tyle attribute=20
values inheritance, if it existed, would be completely different from=20
CSS inheritance (a key concept in CSS, almost always misunderstood one=20
way or another). For example, if an element has style=3D"border: solid=20
thin", then inheriting that attribute value would make all sub-elements=20
bordered. In CSS, the border attribute is not inherited.

> <TABLE style=3D"font-size: 70%">
> <TR style=3D"font-size: 70%">
> <TD style=3D"font-size: 70%=E2=80=A6">
> What size am I ?
[=E2=80=A6]
> why are the two font samples rendered at exactly the same size ?
> I would have expected the second to be considerably smaller (70% of 70%
> of 70% =3D 34%)

They are different on IE. You are probably looking at the page
on Firefox with a setting on minimum font size.

Yucca