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[Michael Nelson <michael.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> From a merge proposal I've been working on and hope to finish today. 
> For background, I'm redesigning the /people page for UI 3.0.  I have
> columns with headings but the headings aren't bold+red like other table
> listings.  I didn't understand why the thead wasn't inheriting the style
> the way it is on e.g. the bug listing page.
> 
> On Aug 15, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Curtis Hovey wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 19:14 +0000, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>>> I am unable to fix the bolding/red on the headers.  The style does
>>> appear broken in some way.  For example, if you look on bug listings (or
>>> other <table class="listing"> examples), they all get the bold/red by
>>> inheriting from the thead style in style.css. For some reason, the thead
>>> on this page does not inherit that style.
>>
>> YUI-Reset undid most of style.css, some id-bases classes are reset at
>> the top of style-3.0.css. I think we want to restore the rule
>>
>> table.listing th {
>>    font-weight: bold;
>>    }

Just to throw another spanner in there, here's a bug that mpt raised
earlier this week with the opposite emphasis:

Headers are more prominent than data in PPA metadata table:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/415814

...arguing that it might make more sense to *un*-bold table headers.

> 
> I did not see any discussion of this on the
> VersionThreeDotO/UI/Conversion page.  I don't really understand the
> relationship between style.css and style-3.0.css, how the latter gets
> chosen, etc.  If you can explain this, I'll happily update the wiki page.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Barry
> 
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Michael