[whatwg] table 'frames' attribute

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 5 May 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> On Mon, 04 May 2009 23:52:21 +0200, fantasai <fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net>
> wrote:
> > [...]
> 
> Regardless of whether the effect of the rules is wrong, the name of the 
> attribute is frame, not frames, as far as I can tell.

On Mon, 4 May 2009, fantasai wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 May 2009, fantasai wrote:
> > > Section 10.2.6, i.e. The XHTML syntax: Rendering: Punctuation and
> > > decoration
> > > contains some style rules for handling the [rules] and [frames] attributes
> > > of the <table> element. I haven't reviewed it all in detail but this part
> > > 
> > >   table[frames=void] > tr > td, table[frames=void] > tr > th,
> > >   table[frames=above] > tr > td, table[frames=above] > tr > th,
> > >   table[frames=below] > tr > td, table[frames=below] > tr > th,
> > >   ...
> > >   table[frames=border] > tfoot > tr > td, table[frames=border] > tfoot >
> > > tr >
> > > th {
> > >     border-style: solid;
> > >   }
> > > 
> > > is certainly wrong both per spec (HTML4) and implementation. It should be
> > > removed.
> > 
> > Could you elaborate on how it is wrong?
> 
> Yeah, sure.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.3.1
> 
> "This attribute specifies which sides of the frame surrounding a table
> will be visible."
> 
> It's not supposed to create any internal borders, just affect the 
> borders of the <table> itself. By contrast the 'border' attribute does 
> create internal borders, but you can see that called out specifically 
> later in that section.

Fixed. I hope. Let me know if there's anything else to fix here! :-)

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