Table Layout in CSS: CSS Table Rendering in Detail by Eric A. Meyer

By Eric A. Meyer

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It uses many of the same values that are used for vertically aligning inline content, but the meanings of those values change when applied to a table cell. To summarize the three simplest cases: top The top of the cell’s content is aligned with the top of its row; in the case of rowspanning cells, the top of the cell’s content is aligned with the top of the first row it spans. bottom The bottom of the cell’s content is aligned with the bottom of its row; in the case of row-spanning cells, the bottom of the cell’s content is aligned with the bottom of the last row it spans.

In a situation where a table contains images, para‐ graphs of text, form elements, and so forth, the process of figuring out the table’s lay‐ out is likely to be a great deal more complicated. Height After all of the effort that was expended in figuring out the width of the table, you might well wonder how much more complicated height calculation will be. Actually, in CSS terms, it’s pretty simple, although browser developers probably don’t think so. info | 31 The easiest situation to describe is one in which the table height is explicitly set via the height property.

Meyer has been working with the Web since late 1993 and is an internation‐ ally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and web standards. ” Beginning in early 1994, Eric was the visual designer and campus web coordinator for the Case Western Reserve University website, where he also authored a widely acclaimed series of three HTML tutorials and was project coordinator for the online version of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and the Dictionary of Cleveland Biog‐ raphy, the first encyclopedia of urban history published fully and freely on the Web.

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