when rowspan is used in a table, the HTML output is lacking distinct rows

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resolution_fixed type_defect | by arusso@amsl.com

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When rowspan is used, the rows do not alternate background color (gray/white), so the rows are not as distinct.

Example:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc8736.html#table-1

• rows for types 4 and 5 (both gray)
• rows for types 10 and 11 (both white)
• last two rows (both gray)

The same issue is in the PDF output, but it's less problematic for readability because there are horizontal lines used to separate rows:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc8736.pdf
(However, Table 1 contains a bad page break within the row for type 12.)

https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc8736.xml

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Issue migrated from trac:494 at 2022-02-08 07:06:18 +0000

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@henrik@levkowetz.com commented

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The table row colourisation is purely an CSS style issue. Giving the HTML row borders is trivial. Are the row borders currently present in PDF sufficiently distinct, or is a darker colour indicated?

(The bad page break is a different issue, and I'll have to see if it's possible to do something about it separately).

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@arusso@amsl.com commented

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The borders in the PDF are sufficiently distinct. (Also fine with making them a darker color.) Thanks.

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed status from new to closed

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed resolution from `` to fixed

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@henrik@levkowetz.com commented

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Fixed in fe06b7d:

Made table and row borders the same for print and HTML on request from the RPC, and increased the contrast between borders and odd row background colour slightly. Fixes issue #494.