wild card attribute in table selector

[RyanReese]

Originally Posted by ralph.m

I've certainly read that, although I don't quite know what's meant by "a generated display value" in relation to a table element.

I assumed you did.

Ok so lets play this. The following elements generate this type of display
<p>-block
<span>inline
<table>table
So the border-collapse will only work for elements that generate display:table, like <table> or elements that are manually given display:table or display:inline-table.

AKA you can give span{display:table;} and as long as the browser supports it it will now make use of border-collapse

Get it?

I figured they would be the case, but still, is just doesn't seem right to have it all as one rule like dotJoon proposed. What do you think?

I don't think it should all be in the same rule as you are applying border-collapse to elements which don't use it. I would manually give that to the table via CSs instead of being lazy with the universal selector