[Ecls-list] Please help

Wed Oct 18 17:39:23 UTC 2006

On Oct 18, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

> 2006/10/18, Daniel Dickison <danieldickison at cmu.edu>:
>> The problem is that <table> elements
>> (apparently) don't inherit from <body> while <p> does -- I guess this
>> is according to the CSS specs, but it always throws me off.
>
> This page
>    http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ 
> Fixing_Table_Inheritance_in_Quirks_Mode
> says this is a legacy bug in the navigators.. This is a "quirk" from
> the old Netscape days. This browser would always render the tables in
> the font defined by the user and not in the one defined in BODY. This
> bug is intentionally preserved on the newer browsers, which by default
> navigate in a "quirk" mode instead of in a "standards compliant" mode.
>
> I found a simple fix: just add
>   * { font: inherit; }
> to the CSS
>

I didn't realize this was a quirks mode thing -- thanks for the  
info!  I suppose it would be ideal to get the doc to render in  
standards-mode by making it valid XHTML, but I think the way you have  
it set up now is very easy to read and elegant.  If it ain't broke... ;)

Daniel