- From: Scott Rippon <Scott.Rippon@arts.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:22:56 +1100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Dear Chris
Thanks for your feedback. The recursive nature of the problem is an
issue that I had thought about when I was writing. Especially the
question of what if you want sub-sub headings below your sub-headings.
My thoughts were that if you wanted to introduce sub-sub headings this
might be the right point to create separate individual tables for each
of the sub-sections.
I hadn't suggested creating separate tables for each sub-section earlier
because in tables where sub-sections only have one or two rows creating
individual tables may be overkill.
I've reformatted my initial example to incorporate your idea about
embedding tables within tables. I hope I have this correctly.
I think that embedding tables may cause problems for people reading with
screen readers. If the reader reads table row one from left to right
what will happen is that all of the column one data for sub-section 1
will be read out then all of the column two data for sub-section 1 will
be read out and so on. If there are many many rows of data I think
users may get very lost within you table.
Kind regards,
Scott Rippon.
<table
summary="This table is an example of a table containing subsections.
In our example
the 2 sub-section each contain sub-section headings.">
<caption>
Example Table 1
</caption>
<thead>
<tr>
<th abbr="TH1" scope="col"><p>Table Heading 1</p></th>
<th abbr="TH2" scope="col"><p>Table Heading 2</p></th>
<th abbr="TH3" scope="col"><p>Table Heading 3</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<table summary="This table contains the column one data for
Sub-section Heading 1.">
<thead>
<tr>
<th abbr="Sub Sect 1" scope="col"><p>Sub-section Heading
1</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><p>S1C1R1</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>S1C1R2</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table summary="This table contains the column two data for
Sub-section Heading 1.">
<thead>
<tr>
<th abbr="Sub Sect 1" scope="col"><p>Sub-section Heading
1</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><p>S1C2R1</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>S1C2R2</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table summary="This table contains the column three data for
Sub-section Heading 1.">
<thead>
<tr>
<th abbr="Sub Sect 1" scope="col"><p>Sub-section Heading
1</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><p>S1C3R1</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>S1C3R2</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<table summary="This table contains the column one data for
Sub-section Heading 2.">
<thead>
<tr>
<th abbr="Sub Sect 2" scope="col"><p>Sub-section Heading
2</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><p>S2C1R1</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>S2C1R2</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table summary="This table contains the column two data for
Sub-section Heading 2.">
<thead>
<tr>
<th abbr="Sub Sect 2" scope="col"><p>Sub-section Heading
2</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><p>S2C2R1</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>S2C2R2</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table summary="This table contains the column three data for
Sub-section Heading 2.">
<thead>
<tr>
<th abbr="Sub Sect 2" scope="col"><p>Sub-section Heading
2</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><p>S2C3R1</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>S2C3R2</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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