- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 20:06:00 +0200 (EET)
- To: Adam Cooper <adam.c@ncprint.com.au>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Liam Quinn wrote:
> The HTML 4.01 Recommendation says:
>
> "TFOOT must appear before TBODY within a TABLE definition so that user
> agents can render the foot before receiving all of the (potentially
> numerous) rows of data."
That's the rationale behind the syntax, but maybe it needs to be said
that a validator's operation is not based on such statements but on
the formal rules alone. In this case, the applicable rule is
<!ELEMENT table
(caption?, (col*|colgroup*), thead?, tfoot?, (tbody+|tr+))>
This implies the the tfoot element, if present, must precede the tbody
element.
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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Received on Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:06:16 UTC