How to keep a table square...

What did the author do to go wrong in

http://www.sadmansoftware.com/sudoku/technique6.htm

in respect of maintaining the squareness of the Sudoku table
under different user font size settings?

I reckon he should get rid of a real lot of stuff and leave room
for *something* like:

table {border: 1px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;width:
9em;height: 9em;}

td {width:2em; height:2em;border:1px solid
black;text-align:center;}

--
dorayme

Re: How to keep a table square...

Scripsit dorayme:

> What did the author do to go wrong in
>
> http://www.sadmansoftware.com/sudoku/technique6.htm
>
> in respect of maintaining the squareness of the Sudoku table
> under different user font size settings?

I dunno. Does it matter?

> I reckon he should get rid of a real lot of stuff and leave room
> for *something* like:
>
> table {border: 1px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;width:
> 9em;height: 9em;}
>
> td {width:2em; height:2em;border:1px solid
> black;text-align:center;}

Well I think you should also set table-layout: fixed (though this probably
does not matter here) for the table and vertical-align: middle for the
cells. And it might be better to omit the width and height settings for the
table; they are redundant and might even cause some trouble, and they would
make it a little more difficult to modify the layout. Actually, I think
there is some miscalculation, since 3 times 2em makes 6em and not 9em in my
math book.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Re: How to keep a table square...

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:20:20 +0300, "Jukka K. Korpela"
wrote:

: since 3 times 2em makes 6em and not 9em in my
: math book.


You still use books? We Google everything here... :)

Sid

Re: How to keep a table square...

Scripsit Sid:
>> since 3 times 2em makes 6em and not 9em in my
>> math book.
>
> You still use books? We Google everything here... :)

Oh, "in my math book" was just a façon de parler, a variant of "in my book",
which seldom means a real book these days. Of course I actually said
http://www.google.com/search?q=3+times+2
to check this out.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Re: How to keep a table square...

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:59:04 +0300, "Jukka K. Korpela"
wrote:

: Scripsit Sid:
: >> since 3 times 2em makes 6em and not 9em in my
: >> math book.
: >
: > You still use books? We Google everything here... :)
:
: Oh, "in my math book" was just a façon de parler, a variant of "in my book",
: which seldom means a real book these days. Of course I actually said
: http://www.google.com/search?q=3+times+2
: to check this out.


ROFL!

Sid

Re: How to keep a table square...

In article ,
"Jukka K. Korpela" wrote:

> Scripsit dorayme:
>
> > table {border: 1px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;width:
> > 9em;height: 9em;}
> >
> > td {width:2em; height:2em;border:1px solid
> > black;text-align:center;}
>
>
> there is some miscalculation, since 3 times 2em makes 6em and not 9em in my
> math book.

Yes, I was fiddling about when looking at this (I see various
table faults now and again on Sudoku sites) and changed my mind
about things and gave 2em to give more space to the tds without
going back to change