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- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:00:27 +0000 (GMT)
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ISSUE-57 (Joshue): @headers [HTML 5 spec] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/ Raised by: Joshue O Connor On product: HTML 5 spec The current wording for the headers attribute only allows the space separated token values to reference the id attribute of a header cell(th). It states "The headers attribute, if specified, must contain a string consisting of an unordered set of unique space-separated tokens, each of which must have the value of an ID of a th element ..." As hierarchical headers are not allowed in HTML5, this means that conceptual headers (cells that contain data and have their own header,but act as a header for other cells in the table) must be marked up as a td. As these cells are conceptually headings, the headers attribute should be able to reference the id attribute of these cells. Related References http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5822 http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/IssueTableHeaders http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2007May/0049.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jun/0145.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Mar/0215.html http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular.html#headers
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