Dear Browser Makers:

Please implement tables properly, so if I have a row I want to be a certain height so that something on the left can align with the bottom of the thing on the right, the thing in the middle can use the handy "rowspan=2" tag in order to spill over that alignment line without screwing everything else up.

Do not continue to implement tables so that if the cell with the rowspan tag happens to go longer than the height of the row it's spanning out if, the height of that row is ignored. This is wrong, and whatever average row height your browser thinks it wants to come up with is wrong and inevitably looks ugly.

Crankily yours,

Fedward.

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(2000-08-13)