Doctypes border-spacing and class-names
I wanted to be able to use a CSS class-name beginning with a number for my Table cross-correlation page. I discovered that class-names beginning with numbers are able to do everything normal class-names can do with table CSS, except for border-spacing, and that this holds true regardless of the Doctype. In the process produced a table that could be useful regardless of whether you want to use numerical class-names or not:
Doctype, Border-spacing, tables colors, class-names in IE8
Seems (re IE8) that the best Doctype to use if you want to be able to present both table-colors and also border-spacing, would be "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 5 Transitional//EN">". I dreamed this Doctype up myself, cobbling together various elements from different Doctypes. This Doctype: references HTML 5, allows for full table-color presentation and control, allows for border-spacing. By way of contrast, <!DOCTYPE html 5> does not allow for border-spacing.
I'll have to check to see if this <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 5 Transitional//EN">" actually does support HTML 5. When no Doctype is listed and when the only doctype declaration is '<!Doctype>', table-colors are supported but border-spacing is not. Best I can tell, if the Doctype listed is unrecognized by the browser, the browser behaves as it would if no Doctype was included in the html file.
Doctype, Border-spacing, tables colors, class-names in IE8
Seems (re IE8) that the best Doctype to use if you want to be able to present both table-colors and also border-spacing, would be "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 5 Transitional//EN">". I dreamed this Doctype up myself, cobbling together various elements from different Doctypes. This Doctype: references HTML 5, allows for full table-color presentation and control, allows for border-spacing. By way of contrast, <!DOCTYPE html 5> does not allow for border-spacing.
I'll have to check to see if this <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 5 Transitional//EN">" actually does support HTML 5. When no Doctype is listed and when the only doctype declaration is '<!Doctype>', table-colors are supported but border-spacing is not. Best I can tell, if the Doctype listed is unrecognized by the browser, the browser behaves as it would if no Doctype was included in the html file.
Labels: border-spacing, class-names, classnames, colors, CSS, doctype, HTML, table-cells, tables
posted by David Virgil at 10:22 PM
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