Re: Table in a <div> element style question

Joe Hesse wrote:

> I have two complete html files below.

They seem to be missing the (required) title element and the Doctype.

> When the first file is viewed with a browser both the paragraph and
> table are red.  When the second file is viewed with a browser only the
> paragaph is red.  I expected that both the paragraph and table would
> display as red in the second file since the <div> element encloses both
> of them.

Presumably the browser default style sheet has 
 
  table { color: black; }

in it then. So if you don't override it, the colour is black.

If you had a suitable Doctype then you would trigger standards mode, and
(in
Firefox at least[1]) gets the much more sensible

  table { color: inherit; }

instead.


[1] Its the only one I bothered to test

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