What CSS styles are not inherited for tables in quirks mode?

[Kornél Pál]

Hi,

Usually I use standards compliant mode but most search engines are
adding code before DOCTYPE for cached results and I want to present a
reliable layout there as well.

Most quirks mode differences are minor but I really don't like that
tables don't inherint a bunch of CSS styles.

I have created two rule sets:

This works with browsers other than Internet Explorer (except font-size:
1em):

table, caption {
color: inherit;
font-size: 1em;
font-style: inherit;
font-variant: inherit;
font-weight: inherit;
line-height: inherit;
text-decoration: inherit;
white-space: inherit;
}

Internet Exlorer (pre-IE8) has no support for inherit, so I use this
that does the same thing but persumably uses more CPU:

table, caption {
color: expression(this.parentNode.currentStyle.color);
font-style: expression(this.parentNode.currentStyle.fontStyle);
font-variant: expression(this.parentNode.currentStyle.fontVariant);
font-weight: expression(this.parentNode.currentStyle.fontWeight);
line-height: expression(this.parentNode.currentStyle.lineHeight);
text-decoration: expression(this.parentNode.currentStyle.textDecoration);
white-space: expression(this.parentNode.currentStyle.whiteSpace);
}

For open source browsers I was able to analyse their quirks mode style
sheets as a result I came up with the above solution.

Internet Explorer is closed source so I would like to ask you to provide
me with an exact list on what CSS properties are not inherited (that
were otherwise inherited according to CSS specifications) for tables and
captions in quirks mode.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Kornél Pál

 

[Allen Chen [MSFT]]

Hi Kornél Pál,

Internet Explorer is closed source so I would like to ask you to provide
me with an exact list on what CSS properties are not inherited (that
were otherwise inherited according to CSS specifications) for tables and
captions in quirks mode.

I have no a handy list but you can look it up on MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms530759(VS.85).aspx

For each property it will tell you whether it's inherited. If you have
additional questions please feel free to ask.

Regards,
Allen Chen
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[Kornél Pál]

Hi,

My problem is that CSS reference pages hardly mention quirks (backwards
compatible) mode behavior differences; they just docuement the standards
compliant mode.

But later I found a list of properties that are not inherited for tables
in quirks mode (TABLE Elements):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250395(VS.85).aspx

Kornél Pál