- From: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:38:17 -0500
- To: "John Foliot" <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Cc: "Antony Tennant" <antonytennant@yahoo.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 12/1/06, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Antony Tennant wrote:
> >
> > Here are my questions:-
> > 1. Is the initial example accurate i.e a repeat of the thead cells
> > (assuming the size of the table warrants it)
>
> This is/has been my general understanding, that the <tfoot> "echoes" the
> <thead> so that there is <th> reference points at both the top and bottom.
> However, I don't think the W3C specifically *mandates* as such, and I can
> now think (based on the thread you quoted) that there would be no reason why
> the content of the <tfoot> could not be *somewhat* different.
>
> For example, if you had a long, matrix style table which tracked, say, sales
> by department over 12 months, then I suspect it would be appropriate to have
> the following:
>
> <table>
> <thead>
> <tr>
> <th>Month</th>
> <th>Dairy</th>
> <th>Produce</th>
> <th>Butcher</th>
> <th>Dry Goods</th>
> </tr>
> </thead>
> <tfoot>
> <tr>
> <th></th>
> <th>{total Sales figure}</th>
> <th>{total Sales figure}</th>
> <th>{total Sales figure}</th>
> <th>{total Sales figure}</th>
> </tr>
> </tfoot>
> <tbody>
> <tr>
> <th>January</th>
> <td>$2,500.00</td>
> <td>$3,500.00</td>
> <td>$4,500.00</td>
> <td>$5,500.00</td>
> </tr>
>
> ...etc.
I don't think this would be a wise idea as the duplicating rows at the
end up table is a useful feature that would be lost if it simply got
used to mark up a summation column. I believe it would be far better
suited to simply apply an id or class to the last <tr>.
--
Orion Adrian
Received on Friday, 1 December 2006 18:38:43 UTC