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Use <th> instead of <td class="TableHeading"> [message #1443] Mon, 15 April 2002 03:40 Go to next message
snafu is currently offline  snafu   United States
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Suggestion:

Use <th> instead of <td class="TableHeading">. I did this on our test installation of FUD, and it involved editing quite a bit of FUD source code and doing some style sheet tinkering.

The display is the same, (even on NS4.7) but the underlying markup is structured better. This will help anal web standards geeks like me sleep better at night.
Re: Use <th> instead of <td class="TableHeading"> [message #1444 is a reply to message #1443] Mon, 15 April 2002 05:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Sounds like a good idea Smile

<th> tag however has 2 anoying properties. first the text inside is automatically bolded & second which is even more anyoing is that the text inside the tag is aligned center by default.

The 2nd being most problematic since the text inside <td class="TableHeading"> is rarely centered.


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Re: Use <th> instead of <td class="TableHeading"> [message #1446 is a reply to message #1444] Mon, 15 April 2002 15:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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prottoss wrote on Sun, 14 April 2002 11:54 PM

Sounds like a good idea Smile

<th> tag however has 2 anoying properties. first the text inside is automatically bolded & second which is even more anyoing is that the text inside the tag is aligned center by default.

The 2nd being most problematic since the text inside <td class="TableHeading"> is rarely centered.


No problem! A simple style sheet rule fixes these things:

th{text-align:left;font-weight:normal;}

With these styles, <th> will behave like a regular <td>, although bold text is probably more appropriate.
Re: Use <th> instead of <td class="TableHeading"> [message #1448 is a reply to message #1446] Mon, 15 April 2002 15:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Do you by any chance know if text-align property is supported by all recent browsers?

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Re: Use <th> instead of <td class="TableHeading"> [message #1449 is a reply to message #1448] Mon, 15 April 2002 15:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Text-align is supported by NS & IE 4.x browsers.

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/css/quickref/css_textalign.html
Re: Use <th> instead of <td class="TableHeading"> [message #1451 is a reply to message #1449] Mon, 15 April 2002 16:04 Go to previous message
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Yey Smile

I'll convert the FUDforum 2 to use th then Smile

Thanks for the info...

P.S. That site is a nice reference to CSS compatibility, thanks Smile


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