What is the default height of a cell if unspecified?

[Rithish]

If I have something like,

<TABLE><TR><TD STYLE="'Font-Family:Arial'">Arial
Text</TD></TR></TABLE>

What would be the height of the cell? I believe it would be
corresponding to the font used... But how do I know?? Are there any
documents on this? any help would be appreciated..

Regards,
Rithish.

[Steve Pugh]

ri*****@dacafe.com (Rithish) wrote:

If I have something like,

<TABLE><TR><TD STYLE="'Font-Family:Arial'">Arial
Text</TD></TR></TABLE>
What's with the extra quotes around your style rule?
What would be the height of the cell? I believe it would be
corresponding to the font used... But how do I know??
In this case the height of the cell would be the height of the line
box containing the words Arial Text (assuming it all fits on one
line). This is normally something roughly around 1.2 * font-size.
The top and bottom padding of the table cell would then go above and
below that before the table cell borders.
Are there any
documents on this? any help would be appreciated..

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html#height-layout

Steve

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[David Dorward]

ri*****@dacafe.com (Rithish) wrote in message news:<fd*************************@posting.google.c om>...

<TABLE><TR><TD STYLE="'Font-Family:Arial'">
Invalid CSS. You have weird quoting. (Also, single cell tables, inline
style, and font-family without a generic alternative are all generally
bad ideas).
What would be the height of the cell?
It will be as high as it needs to be.
I believe it would be
corresponding to the font used...

Yes. (If you mean height in CSS terms. Otherwise you have to accound
for the padding and borders).

[Frances Del Rio]

the height of a table cell, unless specified, is usu. the height of
content inside it (..;) i.e., if table contains one line of text, height
is size (height) of font (for ex., if you specify a font-height of 10px,
height of cell will be 10px..) if you put two lines of text in a font
size of 10px height will be 20px, and so on..
also, if you put in an img inside the cell and nothing else height of
cell will be height of img.. (all this assuming you have not specifed
height of table in table tag.. which I believe has been deprecated
anyway..) hope this helps..

Frances Del Rio
Rithish wrote:

If I have something like,

<TABLE><TR><TD STYLE="'Font-Family:Arial'">Arial
Text</TD></TR></TABLE>

What would be the height of the cell? I believe it would be
corresponding to the font used... But how do I know?? Are there any
documents on this? any help would be appreciated..

Regards,
Rithish.

[Frances Del Rio]

if you don't specify font-size then height will be whatever the font
height is (according to how it falls in user's browser, which can vary
wildly from browser to browser if you don't specify font size, which is
why I always specify font-sizes for everything, even though a lot of
people say you shouldn't do this.. but like this I get a better idea of
how exactly my stuff will look at the other end.. :)

Frances
Frances Del Rio wrote:

the height of a table cell, unless specified, is usu. the height of
content inside it (..;) i.e., if table contains one line of text, height
is size (height) of font (for ex., if you specify a font-height of 10px,
height of cell will be 10px..) if you put two lines of text in a font
size of 10px height will be 20px, and so on..
also, if you put in an img inside the cell and nothing else height of
cell will be height of img.. (all this assuming you have not specifed
height of table in table tag.. which I believe has been deprecated
anyway..) hope this helps..

Frances Del Rio
Rithish wrote:

If I have something like,

<TABLE><TR><TD STYLE="'Font-Family:Arial'">Arial
Text</TD></TR></TABLE>

What would be the height of the cell? I believe it would be
corresponding to the font used... But how do I know?? Are there any
documents on this? any help would be appreciated..

Regards,
Rithish.

[Sam Hughes]

Frances Del Rio <fd***@yahoo.com> wrote in news:2nv47qF537t0U1@uni-
berlin.de:

the height of a table cell, unless specified, is usu. the height of
content inside it (..;) i.e., if table contains one line of text, height is size (height) of font (for ex., if you specify a font-height of 10px,
height of cell will be 10px..) if you put two lines of text in a font
size of 10px height will be 20px, and so on..
also, if you put in an img inside the cell and nothing else height of
cell will be height of img.. (all this assuming you have not specifed
height of table in table tag.. which I believe has been deprecated
anyway..) hope this helps..

The height of a line of text is not based on font-size, well, not directly.
What matters most is the line-height property - line height is usually a
bit bigger, unless you explicitly say otherwise.

Egads! Lead your life away from sin by bottom-posting :-)

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[Rithish]

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> wrote in message news:<q6********************************@4ax.com>. ..

ri*****@dacafe.com (Rithish) wrote:

If I have something like,

<TABLE><TR><TD STYLE="'Font-Family:Arial'">Arial
Text</TD></TR></TABLE>
What's with the extra quotes around your style rule?

I apologize... My mistake..

In this case the height of the cell would be the height of the line
box containing the words Arial Text (assuming it all fits on one
line). This is normally something roughly around 1.2 * font-size.

So, would this be in the units in whatever units the font-size is specified in??
Regards,
Rithish.

[Steve Pugh]

ri*****@dacafe.com (Rithish) wrote:

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> wrote:

In this case the height of the cell would be the height of the line
box containing the words Arial Text (assuming it all fits on one
line). This is normally something roughly around 1.2 * font-size.

So, would this be in the units in whatever units the font-size is specified in??

Sorry, your question isn't clear.

The line-height property can be specified either as a length using any
of the CSS length units, or as a multiplier of the font-size, or as a
percentage of the font-size, or as 'normal'.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.ht...ef-line-height

The height property of the cell can be specified as a length using any
of the CSS length units.

But you were asking about the default values not the values specified
in an author's CSS. The default value of line-height might be
specified in a browser's internal stylesheet in any of the ways
outlined above but the default value of the table cell's height will
need to be computed for each cell and thus won't be specified
anywhere.

Steve

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[Rithish]

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> wrote in message >

In this case the height of the cell would be the height of the line
box containing the words Arial Text (assuming it all fits on one
line). This is normally something roughly around 1.2 * font-size.

What if the cell would contain multiple lines of text? How is the
spacing determined?
Regards,
Rithish.

[Steve Pugh]

ri*****@dacafe.com (Rithish) wrote:

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> wrote in message

In this case the height of the cell would be the height of the line
box containing the words Arial Text (assuming it all fits on one
line). This is normally something roughly around 1.2 * font-size.

What if the cell would contain multiple lines of text? How is the
spacing determined?

Each line of text would generate its own line box and so the height of
the cell would be the sum of the heights of each line box.

Steve

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"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you,
I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

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[Rithish]

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> wrote in message news:<jc********************************@4ax.com>. ..

ri*****@dacafe.com (Rithish) wrote:

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> wrote:

In this case the height of the cell would be the height of the line
box containing the words Arial Text (assuming it all fits on one
line). This is normally something roughly around 1.2 * font-size.

So, would this be in the units in whatever units the font-size is specified in??

Sorry, your question isn't clear.

I meant to ask whether the calculated value of the height of the cell
would be dependent on the font-size units. I believe, the resource
that you pointed to says just so.. Thanks.. doubt clarified.. :o)

Regards,
Rithish.

[Rithish Saralaya]

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> wrote in message news:<jc********************************@4ax.com>. ..

ri*****@dacafe.com (Rithish) wrote:

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> wrote:

In this case the height of the cell would be the height of the line
box containing the words Arial Text (assuming it all fits on one
line). This is normally something roughly around 1.2 * font-size.

So, would this be in the units in whatever units the font-size is specified in??

Sorry, your question isn't clear.

I wanted to confirm whether the thus calculated height of the line-box
would be dependent on font-size units. The resource that you pointed
to was helpful.. :o)
Thanks..

Regards,
Rithish.