As far as I'm concerned, I should be able to stick a style on a row and have it apply to the cells in the table. Sorry, it doesn't work that way.

<style type="text/css">tr.highlight td { font-weight: bold; }</style>
<table>
<tr class="highlight"><td>This is bold.</td></tr>
</table>

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Now we can go through the arguments for/against using tables all day long. Let me just say that every few assignments I wind up having to display a tabular report.

If anyone is trying to get you not to use tables for displaying tabular data, they don't know what they're talking about. Tables are deprecated as a layout crutch, not when used for their actual purpose. They'd've gone the way of the font tag in recent specs if they were inherently evil — except they haven't.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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