Re: Broken tables in HTML output

["Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>]

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On Monday 03 December 2018 23:37:43 Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Pali,
> 
> Pali Rohar wrote on Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 11:20:45PM +0100:
> > On Monday 03 December 2018 23:14:54 Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> >> Pali Rohar wrote on Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 11:01:42PM +0100:
> 
> >>> Seems that it is needed to put "border-bottom-style: solid"
> >>> for rowspanned td element.  At least this is working in chrome.
> 
> >> That would further degrade the quality of the HTML code written by
> >> mandoc.  As a rule, "style=" attributes should be avoided and CSS
> >> should instead by used.  Unfortunately, that's not possible here
> >> because the hard-coded presentational decisions like "draw a border
> >> right here" are already contained in the tbl(7) input, and there
> >> is no way to convert those purely presentational decisions of the
> >> author into semantic or structural markup that could be handled
> >> with CSS.
> >> 
> >> But at least the amount of "style=" attributes written should be
> >> minimized.  Only those "style=" attributes should be written that
> >> are required to correctly express the author's intent.
> 
> > This suggestion is to move border style definition from tr do td.
> 
> That would mean writing more "style=" attributes.
> If a row intersects N cells, N times more.
> That is not good.

You can avoid all style= attributes in tables, by declaring class=
attributes instead of them and then in CSS defines border styles for
defined classes.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

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