[whatwg] Question Regarding <table> width
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Tue Jan 29 18:26:35 PST 2008
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, WeBMartians wrote:
>
> Is
> width="0"
> a pathological (error) state for <table>?
>
> ...and, for that matter, <tr>, <td> and the other tabular tags...
>
> I may have just missed this, but I don't see any explicit restriction on
> zero (or negative) widths.
HTML5 doesn't allow the 'width' attribute on <table> at all.
> I wonder if such values could be used to allow browsers to render
> floating tables: side-by-side tables for large displays and vertically
> sequenced tables for small ones, such as in mobile devices.
That seems like a presentational issue, which would be best handled by the
CSS working group.
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