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Re: HTML @multitable table cell width as attribute or inline style?
From: |
Gavin Smith |
Subject: |
Re: HTML @multitable table cell width as attribute or inline style? |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:55:56 +0100 |
On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 11:25:45AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Right now the @multitable HTML output table td or th elements width is
> set with the width= attribute. This attribute is deprecated in favor of
> using CSS, but to me this is highly debatable, as the width may be part
> of the structure of the table as opposed to styling, more similar to the
> colspan attribute. I hoped that this deprecation would be reverted as
> has been the case for ol type (for which both CSS and attribute can be
> used), but this has not happened for now.
All I can say is that the width attribute is not causing any problems
except in rare cases like EPUB output, which we can work around
in ext/epub3.pm, so we should just leave it alone as we have better
things to worry about.