Re: {bb} HTML table formatting

To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: Re: {bb} HTML table formatting
From: Henrik Olsen <henrik@iaeste.dk>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:58:34 +0200 (CEST)
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, David Miller wrote:
> Subject: Re: {bb} HTML table formatting
> 
> I'm not an HTML wizard but I do know quite a bit about SGML.  What DOCTYPE 
> are you using?
None, didn't you notice the complaint about exactly that:)

> 
> HTML 3.2 == <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
> HTML 4.0 (transitional) == <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 
> Transitional//EN">
> 
> Both HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 appear to me (from looking at the DTDs) to 
> support the PRE element within a TD element.
but neither allows PRE within H4, which I think was mentioned as the real
cause of the problem.

> <!ENTITY % preformatted "PRE">
> <!ENTITY % pre.exclusion "IMG|BIG|SMALL|SUB|SUP|FONT">
> <!ELEMENT PRE - - (%text)* -(%pre.exclusion)>
and PRE apparently has a thing about IMG inside, but that may actually be 
caused by the missing DOCTYPE, which could make it tested as something
weird such as HTML 2.0.

> 
> At 12:54 PM 9/28/99 +1000, you wrote:
> >One of my cow-orkers criticized BB's HTML output, so I thought I'd try
> >patching BB so it passes the HTML 3.2 validator at
> >http://validator.w3c.org.
> >
> >I've fixed the mis-matched start/end tags, etc but I still have a few
> >problems and was hoping someone on this list might be able to help.
> >
> >The problem is using <PRE> inside a <TD> element in the "disk" column.
> >Without the <PRE> the space-padded columns don't line up.
> >
> >Any HTML wizards like to help me out?
> >
> >(The afore-mentioned cow-orker uses the words "IE5" and "standard" in
> >the same sentence. :-)
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >Andrew Dalgleish
> >
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