Re: Technique 5.1 (Table Headers)

Another heuristic:

layout tables typically have

border=0
padding=0
spacing=0

especially if cells contain images.  These are needed to avoid spaces
between images.

Len

At 02:21 PM 11/15/99 +0100, Daniel Dardailler wrote:
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>> The guideline specifies that there should be row and/or column headers for
>> *data* tables only.
>> 
>> Shouldn't there be headers for tables used for layout?
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>No, see Checkpoint 5.4.
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>> How could we determine if the table was a data table or a layout table?
>
>Heuristics.
>Most tables are layout today.
>Likely to have size specified (width, height), colspan, no border.
>
>Data table are likely to have tr and borders.
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