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Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
31h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

<col> — NN 6 MSIE 3, 4, 5, 5.5, 6 HTML 4.01

Synopsis

<col>  (no end tag)
                  

Specifies properties for a column (or group of columns) within a column group (<colgroup>). Columns can share attributes (such as text alignment) without being part of a formal structural grouping.

Column groups and columns were introduced by Internet Explorer 3.0 and are now proposed by the HTML 4.01 specification as a standard way to label table structure. They may also be useful in speeding table display (i.e., the columns can be displayed incrementally without waiting for the entire contents of the table).

Attributes

align=left|right|center|justify|char

Deprecated. Specifies alignment of text in the cells of a column. The default value is left.

char= character

Specifies a character along which the cell contents will be aligned when align is set to char. The default character is a decimal point (language-appropriate). This attribute is generally not supported by current browsers.

charoff= length

Specifies the offset distance to the first alignment character (char) on each line. If a line doesn’t use an alignment character, it should be horizontally shifted to end at the alignment position. This attribute is generally not supported by current browsers.

span= number

Specifies the number of columns “spanned” by the <col> element. The default value is 1. All columns indicated in the span are formatted according to the attribute settings in <col>.

valign=top|middle|bottom|baseline

Deprecated. Specifies ...

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