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[SUMMARY] A table with fixed width?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maurizio Codogno)
Fri Jan 31 10:12:16 1997
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:04:32 +0100 (MET)
From: Maurizio Codogno <mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it>
To: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Recently I asked why I cannot specify a fixed width in centimeters
for the length of a table, as hinted at in RFC1942.
Thanks to everyone who answered me, now I know the answer: HTML 3.2
implements a subset of the RFC, which allows only a length in pixels
(WIDTH=nnn) or in percentage with respect to the page length (WIDTH=nn%)
to be expressed. Netscape implements this subset, not the whole of
RFC1942. My own problem is resolved by using a relative width of 100%,
since of course a display pixel is quite different from a printer pixel :-)
I received answers from
Hemang Patel <hemang@bcpsparc.ucdavis.edu>
Boleslaw Mynarski <bolek@techie.com>
Fabio Preda <preda@italtel.it>
galactus@htmlhelp.com (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
ciao, .mau.
