[Wikipedia-l] Table markup

[Richard Grevers]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:27:10 +0200, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske at web.de> 
gave utterance to the following:

> Erik Zachte wrote:
>
>> Magnus, I do agree that most <tr..> options are redundant.
>>
>> However I did find some that may qualify (there will be more but this is
>> what I found in half an hour). Most address alignment.
>> (<table align=..> has a different purpose)
>
> OK, I'm convinced! :-)
>
> TR will be implemented within the hour, like this:
> |- align=top
>
> I will also integrate <caption> better, and change it to '|+' !
>
>> The option most used for table cells by far is align=...
>> What do you think? Would a wiki shortcut for this be useful?
>> If so, some suggestions for syntax, shown in this order: 
>> left,right,center.
>> (align=left for completeness sake, left is default)
>
> IMHO we shouldn't mess with the attributes at all. Too much wiki markup 
> might turn out to be more confusing then HTML.
>
Especially since those are all deprecated attributes in the newer 
standards.

-- 
Richard Grevers
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