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Why?
« on: October 10, 2012, 09:56:40 AM »
I'm looking at a table created under all the default settings of Program X.

In the first cell of the 1st row it says: colspan="1"

Wha--?

Why have that?

I can see if there are no more td tags after that particular cell...but there are.

What is the functional intent or is it just crap inserted by default that is cluttering up the table?
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Re: Why?
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2012, 10:21:03 AM »
Where did you get "Program X"

If you didn't buy it, but got it from somebody else, the answer to your question is "Why not".
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Re: Why?
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2012, 11:12:34 AM »
Quote from: marv on October 10, 2012, 10:21:03 AM
Where did you get "Program X"

If you didn't buy it, but got it from somebody else, the answer to your question is "Why not".

It's a commercially available program from Microsoft.
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Re: Why?
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2012, 04:49:00 PM »
Do you have the user's manual with the program you have?
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Re: Why?
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2012, 06:07:30 PM »
Quote from: marv on October 10, 2012, 04:49:00 PM
Do you have the user's manual with the program you have?

A dozen thousand pages worth.

Everything gets a CSS tag. Which is weird because the webpages are built with tables rather than using style sheets for the layout and design.

But then every element in the tables gets a CSS tag. Every table, tbody, tr, th, td gets a tag (it's damned annoying because you have a serious nut-roll getting all that crap back out if you don't want the default styles).

And then there are the colspans and rowspans ="1" which are wholly inexplicable for functionality. I hypothesized that they're placeholders but: why bother? If you know what they are and how to use them then why have a placeholder? There's a lot of .asp placeholdercontent crap as well but this seems too unfathomable.
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