1377788 - In Html tutorial, under "HTML table basics/School timetable" <col style="width:42px"> not working in Htnl5

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: HTML, defect)

Description

[Jovana.pavic]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/603.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.1 Safari/603.2.4

Steps to reproduce:

Html tutorial, under "Html table basics" and Active learning: colgroup and col, the "School table" file, asks specifically to define the width of the column via <col> tag and "style" attribute.
"width" in the "style" attribute is, to my understanding, not supported by Html5, and it could be useful to specify this in the lesson, in order not to confuse Html beginners.


Actual results:

The "width" in the "style" attribute simply does not work - the width of the selected column stays unchanged.


Expected results:

The "width" in the "style" attribute cannot be defined in Html5, and this should be specified in the tutorial.

Comment 1

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

I've tested it, and it works for me.

For example, take a local copy of this file:

https://github.com/mdn/learning-area/blob/master/html/tables/basic/timetable-fixed.html

And try changing the following line:

<col style="width:42px;">

to say

<col style="width:200px;">

And you should see that the fourth column becomes a lot wider.

I wonder if it is a browser support issue? What browser are you using?

Comment 2

[Rayann Tedds]

Hiya, I would like to work on this bug as part of my university work. Please can I be assigned to it and given mnore details?  Thank you!

Comment 3

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

(In reply to Rayann Tedds from comment #2)
> Hiya, I would like to work on this bug as part of my university work. Please
> can I be assigned to it and given mnore details?  Thank you!

This isn't really a bug that can be worked on currently — I asked the poster for more information, and they didn't reply. I am going to set this as Resolved incomplete.

I can find you other docs bugs to work on if that would be helpful. https://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?mdn=1 is a good place to look for docs bugs (and other types).