Fw: [docbook-css] Minor Table problem

[martin.gautier@myrnham.co.uk]

Those entry styles seem to work well for me. Way better than my quick 
cludge...

<entry> elements that contain text as well as images are aligned correctly 
as a <entry> elements with just images (which were the problematic ones).

Thanks for that...

Mart





David Holroyd <dave@badgers-in-foil.co.uk>
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:35:27PM +0100, martin.gautier@myrnham.co.uk 
wrote:
> The problem is for XML viewed with CSS only. The troublesome images 
_are_ 
> larger than the column width I've set - I've not tried smaller images 
but 
> David's earlier work implies that they work OK?
> 
> Adding the valign="top" to the imagedata makes no difference to the CSS 
> output unfortunately.

The CSS currently makes no use of any attributes on table-related
elements, though it's probably possible to make use of 'valign', at
least.  You could try the following (I've no time to test):

  entry[valign=top] {
      vertical-align: top;
  }
  entry[valign=bottom] {
      vertical-align: bottom;
  }


I didn't really spend any effort on doing tables 'right', I just tried
to give the correct values for the display: property, so that the
content wouldn't all just appear inline.


> My impression is that the problem is related to CSS and the Browser 
> technology rather than the XML itself...

My hunch is that; in the absence of any other instructions on how to
vertically align things, it's trying to align cell content to some
row-wide 'baseline'.  That being the case, adding a newline before the
image will mean that this cell contains two line-boxes, and probably
other elements in the row are then vertically aligned to the baseline of
the (empty) line-box above the image.


Does any of that help?

dave

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