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1 | 1 | <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> |
2 | 2 | <html lang="en"> |
3 | | -<!-- $Id: tables.src,v 1.22 1997-10-29 16:46:02 bbos Exp $ --> |
| 3 | +<!-- $Id: tables.src,v 1.23 1997-10-30 08:43:18 ian Exp $ --> |
4 | 4 | <head> |
5 | 5 | <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> |
6 | 6 | <title>Tables</title> |
@@ -253,8 +253,7 @@ table:</p> |
253 | 253 | <var>border-width</var><sub><var>i</var></sub> refers to the border |
254 | 254 | between cells <var>i</var> and <var>i</var> + 1.</p> |
255 | 255 |
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256 | | -<p><img src="images/tbl-width.gif" alt="Schema showing the widths of |
257 | | -cells and borders and the padding of cells"></p> |
| 256 | +<p><img src="images/tbl-width.gif" alt="Schema showing the widths of cells and borders and the padding of cells"></p> |
258 | 257 |
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259 | 258 | <p>Note that for a table element, the width includes the border, and |
260 | 259 | that a table doesn't have a padding. It does have a margin, |
@@ -438,18 +437,18 @@ violating this rule.</p> |
438 | 437 |
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439 | 438 | <p>A cell is similar to a block in the way its contents are rendered, |
440 | 439 | that means, in particular, that <span |
441 | | -class="propinst-text-align">'text-align'</span> applies to |
| 440 | +class="propinst-alignment">'alignment'</span> applies to |
442 | 441 | it. However, tables also allow a way of aligning text that does not |
443 | 442 | apply to other blocks, and that is aligning the contents of several |
444 | 443 | cells so that they all align on, e.g., a decimal point (".") |
445 | 444 |
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446 | | -<p>More precisely, if the value of 'text-align' for a certain cell is |
| 445 | +<p>More precisely, if the value of 'alignment' for a certain cell is |
447 | 446 | a string, that cell has an <dfn>alignment point</dfn>, which is the |
448 | | -start of that string. The aligment point must be straight above or |
| 447 | +start of that string. The alignment point must be straight above or |
449 | 448 | below the alignment points of all other cells in the same column that |
450 | 449 | have an alignment point. (Note that the other cells do not need to |
451 | 450 | have the same value for <span |
452 | | -class="propinst-text-align">'text-align'</span>; as long as they are |
| 451 | +class="propinst-alignment">'alignment'</span>; as long as they are |
453 | 452 | aligned on a string, they have an alignment point.) |
454 | 453 |
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455 | 454 | <p>Aligning text in this way is only useful if the text is short |
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