- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 19:57:46 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 12:52 PM 10/07/97 -0700, E. Stephen Mack wrote: >In studying tables.html in the 4.0 draft, I fail to understand the purpose >of THEAD, TFOOT, and TBODY. By labelling a TABLE's header rows, footer rows, and body rows, a user agent can repeat the header/footer rows on each page of a printed multi- page table, and can condense a long table into a shorter table with fixed header and footer rows and a scrollable body. Authors ask for this quite often in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, and some end up using frames as a hack (which doesn't work when horizontal scrolling is needed, as well as in many other situations). MSIE 4.0b1 supports proper printing of THEADs and TFOOTs, but it doesn't support scrolling TBODYs. >Are THEAD and TFOOT to be repeated (rerendered) by a user agent for >each subsequent TBODY that doesn't specify a THEAD/TFOOT of its own? > >Why doesn't THEAD allow a nested TFOOT so that the same TR can be >nested within both, and serve as both a header and footer? No to both. HTML cannot set constants or variables for content. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM8V2+Q/JhtXygIx1AQGf3gMAywbEHg0j4IpNpP2YIZ8Dc65KNgpxFdo9 dGO4kC7mXb7jM57gKDKuLYJXo6LK5dDTh4yhOkpLILxZw2QrVud0VNTBJBgL+P/o KkGlwQoqxHYa4T1p588eg/VO/mBL124t =4v5m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Liam Quinn =============== http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/ =============== Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/ ====== PGP Key at http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/pgp.html =====
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