Re: removing valign in HTML tables?

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>   
> > On Aug 3, 2022, at 15:15, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > There are many uses of valign in HTML tables generated by texi2any.
> > They come from texi2html days.  I did some tests, and the differences
> > with and without are not important.  And more fundamentaly, I see little
> > point in trying to set that kind of information, unless there is an
> > obvious issue with some formatting.
> >
> > Is there anybody opposed to removing the valign everywhere?
> >     
>
> It is not a valid attribute in HTML5
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6048913/what-replaces-cellpadding-cellspacing-valign-and-align-in-html5-tables
>
> So yes. Removing it would not be a bad thing.

This is one of the reasons I believe that Texinfo should stick with HTML 
4.01 Strict or some version of XHTML.  Those are fixed targets.  HTML5 
is a moving target.  I expect that either of those should be enough for 
Texinfo documentation.


-- Jacob