Style Table Cell

[shapper]

Hello,

I have a table and I am styling its cells:

table.Grid td {background-color: red;}

Inside this table I will have some other tables but I don't want their
cells to have the styles changed.

I see two options: give a class to Grid table cells:
table.Grid td.Grid {background-color: red;}

Reset the changes in child tables:
table.Child1 td, table.Child2 td, table.Child3 td {background-color:
white;}

But can I apply the following style:
table.Grid td {background-color: red;}

And make it only for the cells inside that table but not inside the
child tables in this code line?
.... without needing to reset the styles on child table cells or give
main cells a class ...

Thanks,
Miguel

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* shapper wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

>table.Grid td {background-color: red;}

Inside this table I will have some other tables but I don't want their
cells to have the styles changed.

There are two options, either pick a selector that does not select the
descendants you don't want to select, or override the styles with other
rules. For the former you could use the child combinator, ala

table.Grid thead td { ... }

This would only match td elements whose parent is a thead whose parent
is a table element with class=Grid. This would work in most current
browsers except IE6. The other method would simply be

table.Grid td { ... set ... }
table.Other td { ... override ... }
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[Johannes Koch]

Bjoern Hoehrmann schrieb:

table.Grid thead td { ... }

missing tr:
table.Grid thead tr td { ... }

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