Re: [Orgmode] Re: Aligning Columns in HTML Export Tables

[Carsten Dominik]

On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Christian Moe wrote:

> On 10/25/10 6:36 AM, Baoqiu Cui wrote:
> I am wondering if there
> > is any special reason to use "class" instead of "align".  If not,  
> > can we
> > change the elisp code to use "align"?
>
> I believe the "align" attribute is slated for obsoletion in HTML5,  
> on the grounds that it's better handled by CSS.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html
>
> It's a reason to go with "class" instead. Not a compelling one,  
> perhaps.
>
> My only strong opinion on this is that I absolutely agree with the  
> choice not to set the "style" attribute locally on each table cell.

Hmm, butwe do now set the class in each cell.  Is that any better?

- Carsten

> But Sebastian Rose's request that prompted it, /could/ equally well  
> be addressed with the "align" attribute:
>
> > How about this (line-wrapped for readability):
> >
> >
> > <tr>
> > <td class="right">1</td>
> > <td class="left">bar</td>
> > <td class="left">text</td>
> > <tr>
> >
> > instead of
> >
> > <tr>
> > <td style="text-align:right">1</td>
> > <td style="text-align:left">bar</td>
> > <td style="text-align:left">text</td>
> > <tr>
> >
> > ??
> >
> >
> > Combined with the ways to add IDs and classes to tables, we could  
> > then style the
> > columns better.
> >
> > I would like to set this for right aligned <td> tags as default:
> >
> >  td.right { font-family:monospace;text-align:right; }
>
> Using the "align" attribute as follows,
>
> <tr>
> <td align="right">1</td>
> <td align="left">bar</td>
> <td align="left">text</td>
> <tr>
>
> Sebastian could achieve the same with CSS like
>
> td[align="right"]  { font-family: monospace;}
>
> In the same way one could even use CSS to override the alignment  
> specified by the "align" attribute, if for whatever reason this  
> seemed like a good idea...
>
> One slight advantage of the "align" attribute over "class" is that  
> it doesn't require the default style to contain the extra verbiage  
> Carsten mentioned:
>
> > I have now in the default style:
> >
> >  td, th { vertical-align: top;  }
> >  th.right  { text-align:right;  }
> >  th.left   { text-align:left;   }
> >  th.center { text-align:center; }
> >  td.right  { text-align:right;  }
> >  td.left   { text-align:left;   }
> >  td.center { text-align:center; }
> >
> > Is there a way to write this more compactly?
>
> Yours,
> Christian

- Carsten