Re: nesting colgroup and rowgroups (PR#7881)

While there are notional "rowgroups" there are no explicit arbitrary rowgroups
in HTML nor in XHTML because rows are explicit in tables.  colgroups, on the
other hand, exist because HTML / XHTML needs a way of referring to columns.

Could you please provide a concrete example of what you are looking for, along
with a description of what the advantages would be?

> From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
> To: www-html-editor@w3.org
> Subject: nesting colgroup and rowgroups
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:32:49 -0500
> Message-ID: <fb6fbf560602020832j6542395eo2e45aa905556538e@mail.gmail.com>
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> 
> The colgroup example discusses grouping permanent and local contact
> information separately.  Even within these groupings, there may be
> subgroupings, such as physical address vs phone number.
> 
> I would prefer that a colgroup could contain other colgroups (and a
> rowgroup other rowgroups).  If this has been rejected, I would like to
> see at least a brief summary of the reasoning behind the limit in that
> section of the spec.
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:54:10 UTC