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Subject: Re: Re: Aligning Columns in HTML Export Tables
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[Veering off-topic, just to round off a discussion]

On 10/25/10 4:55 PM, Sebastian Rose wrote:

>
> How refer to all right-aligned `td' elements in a certain tables without
> some special attribute anyway.

Fair point. (In an ideal world, as long as the whole column is 
right-aligned it should be enough to refer to all right-aligned `col' 
elements, but this clearly is not the case today.)

> `class' preferred since this is CSS2 and
> will work in commen browsers.  I'm not sure how which browsers will
> understand  the selector  `table#special td[align="right"] {...}'.

Firefox, Safari, ... The attribute selector is CSS2, too. But I agree 
`class' is preferred.

>
> BTW: Org mode's exports to XHTML, not HTML 4.01 or HTML 5 (which is a
> proposal, not a "standard" or recommendation yet).  Still,
> '<td align="right">' is valid XHTML, too.

Absolutely, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But I think in this 
regard, at least, the thinking behind the HTML 5 proposal makes sense. 
(As for the relationship between HTML 5 and XHTML, let's not go there...)

Christian