- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:39:32 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > It also has a moderately pleasing (to me, at least) parallel with > <tbody>, which serves the same purpose of being an optional wrapper for > the body contents of the table. Styling opportunities with <tbody> are > fewer due to the limitations imposed by the table formatting model, but > it still finds plenty of use in my CSS. I used it just today to cleanly > apply a border to just the <td>s in the body of a stats table, avoiding > the placeholder <td> in the <thead> (serving just to take up a cell in > the upper-left, as the table had both row and column headers). I think the parallel with <tbody> might be what is putting some people off -- <tbody> has been quite a big pain in the neck for many years, with weird edge cases, parsing oddities, styling difficulties, etc. I'm not saying we couldn't do it right, but it certainly isn't trivial. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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