Topic: alternative to white-space:nowrap (IE bug?) (Page 1 of 1)

hello
i have a long table and in the first row (the rows-description) i want no line break to occur, so i write this.

<tr style="white-space:nowrap;">
<td>...</td><td......

unfortunately this doesnt seem to work in IE, there are still line breaks, while FF and OP work as expected. does anyone know an easy work around for this?

why not simply using TH tags and doing:

th
{
    white-space:nowrap;
}

'cause I guess IE can't apply the white-space property to a TR but it can probably do to a TD or TH

^ that should do it.

The <tr> shouldn't really have styles applied to it - very often they won't be interpreted the way you want them to.

Also, if your making a header.....code it as a header (<th>)!



(Edited by DL-44 on 02-20-2006 20:28)

ok, it works with <th> or <td>. thank you!

i just thought i could save some code by applying a style to the mother element, which should be inherited to its children.

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GRUMBLE said:

i just thought i could save some code by applying a style to the mother element, which should be inherited to its children.

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Would save more code and time by

1) using the proper mark-up (ie <th> )

2) either applying the style to all <th> (as poi demonstrated) or by applying a class to the table, and specifying it accordingly in the CSS -

table.class th {
...
}
Keep the 'style' attribute out of your markup, and don't bother putting a class in each <th>.


You have to remember that each element has default settings, which vary by user agent. Style attributes are not automatically inherited by child elements of a different type.



(Edited by DL-44 on 02-20-2006 22:45)

thanks, DL! i will do the "table.class th" thing.

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Style attributes are not automatically inherited by child elements of a different type

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oh, now that explains a couple of things...

Hence hwy every property that is inheritable has the absolute definition setting of "inherit"


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