[css2] Allowed that a UA uses fixed table layout in some cases even when

bert-github · bert-github · commit 76388d451676 · 2003-01-10T22:09:17.000Z
width' is 'auto'

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diff --git a/css2/tables.src b/css2/tables.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: tables.src,v 2.58 2002-12-10 13:47:29 bbos Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: tables.src,v 2.59 2003-01-10 22:09:17 bbos Exp $ -->
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <title>Tables</title>
@@ -760,16 +760,22 @@ table's width, the width of the columns, and borders or cell spacing.
 class="propinst-width">'width'</span> property. A value of 'auto' (for
 both 'display: table' and 'display: inline-table') means use the <a
 href="#auto-table-layout">automatic table layout</a> algorithm.
+However, if the table is a block-level table ('display: table') in
+normal flow, a UA may (but does not have to) use the algorithm of <a
+href="visudet.html#q6">10.3.3</a> to compute a width and apply fixed
+table layout even if the specified width is 'auto'.
 
-<p class=note style="color:red">[Possible change to that last
-sentence: the width of a table (but not of an 'inline-table') could in
-principle be derived from the containing block's width, exactly as for
-block elements, allowing the fixed layout algorithm to be used even if
-'width' is 'auto'. This would in addition allow 'table {margin: 1em;
-table-layout: fixed}' to create a table that is 100% - 2em wide.
-Suggestion by <a
-href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2002Aug/0286.html">
-Fantasai.</a>]
+<div class="example">
+If a UA supports fixed table layout when 'width' is 'auto', the
+following will create a table that is 4em narrower than its containing
+block:
+
+<pre>
+table { table-layout: fixed;
+        margin-left: 2em;
+        margin-right: 2em }
+</pre>
+</div>
 
 <P>In the fixed table layout algorithm, the width of each column is
 determined as follows:</p>
