[Bug 10026] Scope attribute for TD

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10026


Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>  2010-06-29 22:00:18 ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> There seems to be no scope attribute for the TD cell in HTML5 but your own
> website gives an example using it:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H63.html.

The WCAG example seems less than ideal.  The cell in question is clearly acting
as a row header, and so should be marked up as a <th> instead.

Allowing @scope on ordinary table-cells (<td>) when it's only intended to be
used for header cells (<th>) doesn't seem to benefit anyone.


> I strongly believer the scope=row
> (at least) should be allowed otherwise one must additionally provide a class
> for the TH element to override the browser styling defaults. The row scope may
> be data in addition to a header so I feel it is relevant to have scope for a TD
> cell.

I don't understand this at all.  Why must one put a class on a <th> in order to
override the browser default styling?  Presumably the intent is to make a
header cell that looks just like the other cells.  This can be done in the
ordinary way by using CSS to just select all the <th> elements.

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Received on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 22:00:21 UTC