Re: Lines in Tables

Michael Johnson ([email protected])
Fri, 09 Dec 94 08:39:36 EST


Tony Jebson writes:
>One thing I've jyst realised I would like to see in HTML 3.0 is more
>control over the lines drawn around tables. At present all you can do
>is say whether you have lines or not. It would be nice to be able to
>specify border lines, row lines, column lines etc separately.

How about adding a RULES attribute to the TABLE element:

rules (none|horiz|vert|both) #IMPLIED -- both if borders on, otherwise none

This should give sufficient control over rules. It might be desirable to
extend the BORDERS attribute:

borders (none|horiz|vert|both) none

Michael Johnson
Relay Technology, Inc.