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Posted by Thomas Joseph Meneses
Thomas Joseph Meneses
9,838 Points

Using Table Formatting Attributes e.g. align

I just finished watching the video lecture on HTML tables, and was surprised to see a lot of the time spent teaching the viewer how to use several attributes that don't add information to the table or its contents such as align, valign, and cell spacing & padding. I did a bit of research and found that all of these attributes are not even part of the HTML5 spec. Is there any particular reason why we're being taught this despite concerted efforts being made in all lectures prior that layouting and formatting should be done in CSS, not HTML?

Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Davies
2,162 Points

I think its because if your making things like marketing email etc, hotmail for example strip out any css coding from the email. So you have to revert to using an early method of styling html tags.

Randy Perez
Randy Perez
5,668 Points

Hello TJ,

First thing is that you should remember that HTML4 is not dead already so most part of pages are coded in HTML4 and you should know about it.

And second thing the lessons are in HTML4 not HTML5. Even thought you should be getting ready to code just in HMTL5 from now on

1 Answer

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

I suspect the reason is more pedological then technical. Since the HTML course comes before the CSS course. It's much easier to teach someone how to use the align and padding properties than to teach them how to use the box model, margin & padding.

Of course I take your point, everyone should really be forward looking in our HTML learning and that means dropping use of properties that aren't support in HTML5.