Would you place your CSS learning steps here ... for those of us - like me - not understanding it yet. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:58 PM, George Waller <George@waller.org> wrote: > Thanks Bob, Dr. Bob, and Pat :-) > > All answers seem reasonable. Will play around. > CSS will have to wait until next year when I hope to learn > some. Sorry Pat you spent so much time on answering in > CSS. From now on I will preface my questions with a > warning that I am not CSS conversant. But your time is > not wasted as your email will go into a CSS folder for > future reference. > George > > On 18 Dec 2009 at 11:57, Robert Sullivan wrote: > > > > Here is another question about tables. Is there a way to > > > specify the column widths globally? As you can see, I > > > repeatedly specify the width in each <TD. > > > > The <col> tag will do what you want. > > > > <http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_col.asp> > > > > N.B. although this is part of the HTML standard, not all browsers > > support all its attributes. The page above notes that Firefox only > > supports "width" which means any alignment commands will be ignored. > > I believe this is also the case with IE8 and Chrome. Your mileage may > > vary about whether this would prevent you from using it. > > > > -- > > Bob Sullivan > > Schenectady Digital History Archive > > <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/> > > Schenectady County (NY) Public Library > > >