<col> and <colgroup> with classes

[Daniel Haude]

Me again!

This time I'd like to prevent an entire column of a table to have no
word-wrapping. So I defined this class in the style sheet:

..nobr {
white-space: nowrap;
}

When I define table cells like this: <td class="nobr"> everything works
fine. But using this class for an entire column doesn't work (I don't
want the "16:00 - 18:00" part wrapped):

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="1">
<colgroup>
<col>
<col class="nobr">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Montag</td>
<td>16:00 - 18:00</td>
<td> ... </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
What am I doing wrong;

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[Martin Honnen]

Daniel Haude wrote:

This time I'd like to prevent an entire column of a table to have no
word-wrapping. So I defined this class in the style sheet:

.nobr {
white-space: nowrap;
}

When I define table cells like this: <td class="nobr"> everything works
fine. But using this class for an entire column doesn't work (I don't
want the "16:00 - 18:00" part wrapped):

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="1">
<colgroup>
<col>
<col class="nobr">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Montag</td>
<td>16:00 - 18:00</td>
<td> ... </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
What am I doing wrong;

Probably overestimating the power of the <col> element, check what the
CSS 2 specification has to say about column elements at
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html#q4
and it only lists the CSS properties
border, background, width, visibility
as those that can be applied to columns to influence table cells.
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/