- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:54:43 +0300
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sep 9, 2007, at 13:43, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Although maybe you could add an additional requirement that a > header cell for a given cell needs to span the same columns (or > more) for it to become a header cell for that cell (also, not same > amount of columns, the same columns). This would also help with the > Thesis example from Henri. That's not quite right. You could reasonably have a cell spanning two columns and both columns having single-column header cells. In that case, it is quite reasonable to associate the wide cell with both. I suggest experimenting with a rule that a cell doesn't get associated with any column headers if the cell spans a column that has no header. (And analogously for rows.) Consider: <table> <tr><th>Label 1<td>Data 1 <tr><td colspan=2>Headerless cell <tr><th>Label 2<td>Data 2 <table> vs. <table> <tr><th>Label 1<th>Label 2 <tr><td colspan=2>Data 1a and Data 2a <tr><td>Data 1b<td>Data 2b <table> For reference, the "Thesis example" Anne is referring to is http://hsivonen.iki.fi/thesis/html5-conformance-checker#abstract -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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