Re: [HTML4 Tables] cell width, column width

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Christian Roth wrote:
> 
> this question refers to 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.6>
> 
> 1. What does the width attribute on a TD refer to? Is it
> 
> - the center border edge width of the cell?
> - the inner border edge width of the cell?
> - the inner padding edge width of the cell?
> 
> Does it include half of the cell spacing, if specified? And if so, how 
> are the corner cases first cell/last cell in a row handled?
> 
> 2. Does the width attribute on COL/COLGROUP refer to the same 
> measurement as the width attribute on TH/TD elements?
> 
> If you could point me to the place in the HTML 4.01 spec where this is 
> defined, that would be greatly appreciated.

HTML4 doesn't define this.

This section of the contemporary HTML spec (which obsoletes HTML4) may be 
of more help:

   http://whatwg.org/html#tables

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