Sent by Eric A. Meyer on 14 January 2003 03:03
At 22:52 +0100 1/13/03, Luc wrote:
> I have not
> declared a doctype at the moment and according to your article this
> will cause IE, Netscape to get into quirks mode and prevent the table
> to inherit the font values. Is my assumption correct?
For Netscape 6.1+, I believe the answer to be yes, the lack of a
DOCTYPE will put the browser into quirks mode and it will not inherit
font styles (other than font-family) into tables. This is likely to
also be the case in IE6. However, it's possible to stay in quirks
mode and still get proper font inheritance into tables. See
<http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/table-inherit/> for an
explanation. If IE6 properly supports 'inherit', then the solution
described there will also work in IE6.
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Eric A. Meyer (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone
"CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously."
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