easy cascading question

[Citizen10Bears]

hi all

I have a table which I assign a css class to like this...
<table class=tableclass>

and css that looks like this

..tableclass {background-color:red;}

I now want to style every TD within that table so I try

..tableclass td {background-color:blue;}

now this works fine in firefox, but IE gets quite upset.
what is the correct way to achieve this without finding every single TD
and assigning a class to it?

thanks

[Chris Sharman]

Ci************@gmail.com wrote:

hi all

I have a table which I assign a css class to like this...
<table class=tableclass>

Should be <table class="tableclass"ideally.
You should also pick a more meaningful class name.

and css that looks like this

.tableclass {background-color:red;}

I now want to style every TD within that table so I try

.tableclass td {background-color:blue;}

now this works fine in firefox, but IE gets quite upset.
what is the correct way to achieve this without finding every single TD
and assigning a class to it?

This is syntactically correct, and fully supported by ie, afaik - does
it validate ? If so, post a url.
You should also set color everywhere you set background-color, for
reasons discussed already in this group, and explained by the validators.
http://validator.w3.org/
http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Chris

[Andy Dingley]

Ci************@gmail.com wrote:

what is the correct way to achieve this without finding every single TD
and assigning a class to it?

You appear to have done it, so the problem is something else.

If you'd posted a URL, we'd have been able to tell you.

[Citizen10Bears]

some interesting things...

sometimes I want to remove a css line just temporarily, so I ruin the
line by adding a character,

eg
border:
becomes
xborder:

and then I tidy up later on when I'm sure I don't want the line.

something that ruined my page was using an apostrophe as the junk
character...

eg
'border:

now FF understood what I was doing but IE didn't. I'm not sure if this
was the main cause of my problem, but I also rewrote the class thing so

class=myclass was replaced with id=myclass
and in the css file
..myclass
..myclass td

became
#myclass
#myclass td

and now I am as happy as a biddy!

(despite the huge frustrations of the differences between ff and ie.
bring back tables!!!)

Andy Dingley <di*****@codesmiths.comwrote:

Ci************@gmail.com wrote:

what is the correct way to achieve this without finding every single TD
and assigning a class to it?

You appear to have done it, so the problem is something else.

If you'd posted a URL, we'd have been able to tell you.

[Neredbojias]

To further the education of mankind, Ci************@gmail.com
vouchsafed:

and now I am as happy as a biddy!

The biddies I know aren't particularly happy.

(despite the huge frustrations of the differences between ff and ie.
bring back tables!!!)

....and the horse! No more higher gas prices! Wonder what hay is going for
these days?

--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

[Citizen10Bears]

oddly, I now use a combination of tables and css for layout.
and just out of curiosity I did a viewsource on this very page, and lo
and behold, so do google! I should charge more money :-)
Neredbojias wrote:

To further the education of mankind, Ci************@gmail.com
vouchsafed:

and now I am as happy as a biddy!

The biddies I know aren't particularly happy.

(despite the huge frustrations of the differences between ff and ie.
bring back tables!!!)

...and the horse! No more higher gas prices! Wonder what hay is going for
these days?

--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

[Neredbojias]

To further the education of mankind, Ci************@gmail.com
vouchsafed:

oddly, I now use a combination of tables and css for layout.
and just out of curiosity I did a viewsource on this very page, and lo
and behold, so do google! I should charge more money :-)

Well, I'm not a table nihilist, but I think most of the time one can do
better with css and divs, etc. However, the other day it occurred to me
that up to 90% of my markup-time (css/html) is spent trying to accommodate
the _differences_ in browsers, not designing the page or even straight-
forwardly dealing with the "coding". That's pitiful.

--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.