Re: Alignment Inheritance in HTML 4.01 Tables

Christian Roth <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:02:39 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.html.general
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On 01.12.2011, at 12:09, Philip TAYLOR wrote:

> In
>=20
> <!DOCTYPE HTML>
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <META http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
> <TITLE>HTML 5 (Provisional) Table Inheritance Test</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
>=20
> <BODY>
> <TABLE style=3D"font-size: 70%">
> 	<TR>
> 		<TD>
> 			What size am I ?
> 		</TD>
> 	</TR>
> </TABLE>
> <TABLE style=3D"font-size: 70%">
> 	<TR style=3D"font-size: 70%">
> 		<TD style=3D"font-size: 70%">
> 			What size am I ?
> 		</TD>
> 	</TR>
> </TABLE>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>=20
> which is the re-written version of the test previously referred to,
> why are the two font samples rendered at exactly the same size ?

because your browser probably has a bug.=20

If you check your sample in either e.g. Chromium, Opera, Firefox 7 or =
current Safari, you'll see that they show the result as you expected =
(second "What size am I ?" is smaller than the first).

Your latest example shows exactly the point I am making: The HTML 4.01 =
spec says, 'style' is inherited, when in fact it does not seem to be (or =
all current browsers would be wrong on this).

-kris=