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Bug 11494 - I would like a simple direct way to say that a table, or all tables in a document, should be drawn using single lines. I produce puzzles as a business, so the tables that I have on my webpages are crossword diagrams, Sudoku diagrams, chess diagrams, and
Summary: I would like a simple direct way to say that a table, or all tables in a docu...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML Canvas 2D Context (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-12-07 21:48 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:03 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-12-07 21:48:26 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#top

Comment:
I would like a simple direct way to say that a table, or all tables in a
document, should be drawn using single lines.  I produce puzzles as a
business, so the tables that I have on my webpages are crossword diagrams,
Sudoku diagrams, chess diagrams, and so forth.	When these are drawn using
double lines, shading, 3-dimensional effects, or other fanciful decoration
this detracts from the purpose and the content of the diagram.	It also wastes
a huge amount of space.  The double lines are 6 pixels wide, instead of the 2
pixels for a normal line.  For a 9x9 Sudoku, that's 40 wasted pixels. The
reader needs that spce for wing the puzzle.  For a large format 25x25
crossword, that's 104 wasted pixels in each direction.	Even if the table
contains ordinary text, the ornate borders distract and detract from the
contents.

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Comment 1 Boris Zbarsky 2010-12-07 22:05:34 UTC 
This is pretty simple with CSS, no?
Comment 2 Tab Atkins Jr. 2010-12-07 23:01:52 UTC 
This is a CSS issue.  It can be trivially achieved with code similar to the following:

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
  border: 1px solid black;
}
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:03:57 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1