Re: removing valign in HTML tables?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 09:10:32PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
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> > On Aug 3, 2022, at 15:15, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> wrote:
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> > 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
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> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6048913/what-replaces-cellpadding-cellspacing-valign-and-align-in-html5-tables
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> So yes. Removing it would not be a bad thing.

We won't remove it for that reason.  For two reasons, first because if
it is useful, we do not really care much what the standard says if
browsers implements a feature we like for Texinfo HTML.  And second,
because it can be replaced by CSS.

My question is really on the need for formatting.

If we keep it, we will probably turn to CSS for the implementation.

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Pat