> Horizontal Tab -- DP attribute and ALIGN attributes (
> The text says that the designated decimal point character can be altered
> by the language content, as set by the lang attribute on enclosing
> elements. Is this the best choice -- I would prefer that DP override
> the existing language default.
That is indeed the idea. The spec says:
"the default may be altered by the language content, as set by the
lang attribute on enclosing elements."
Note the use of "the default" here, as this is how the user agent can
determine the default alignment character when the DP attribute is
left out. Note also that I am proposing to rename DP to CHAR in the
next revision to the HTML3 spec, along with several other changes
to tables following discussings at the Danvers IETF.
If there is no matching character in the text in question, the
alignment defaults are inherited from the enclosing element.
For <tab> the behaviour in this situation is currently unspecified.
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