- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:03:01 +0200
- To: "Ray Dickman" <rdickman@ramius.net>
- Cc: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "Denis Boudreau" <dboudreau@webconforme.com>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 02 May 2007 14:59:46 +0200, Ray Dickman <rdickman@ramius.net> wrote: >> Indeed. At least summary= is often abused by authors: "Table used for >> layout", "Grid of 3 by 2 cells", etc. Given how determining cell headers >> is defined I wonder about use cases for headers=. > > In the case of complex data tables (where there may be headings that span > multiple sub-headings for example), people can use the headers attribute > to link that data to a <th>'s id value. Basically, in a table that isn't > simple enough to just use scope, associating data to headings using > headers and ids is very useful. I'm aware how headers= works. I don't think your use case is one where it is needed though. Could you give a concrete example (maybe even in code)? -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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