- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 19:21:53 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Alexandre Morgaut <Alexandre.Morgaut@4d.com>
- Cc: "whatwg@whatwg.org" <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Alexandre Morgaut wrote: > > The HTML Table API provides powerful attributes like: > - "scope" > - "headers" > - "colspan" > - "rowspan" > > All of them give informations about relationships between the table > cells, rows, and columns > > It would be very helpful if: > - each "th" element could have a "cells" property which would be the > HTML Collection of each "td" they are heading > - each "td" element could have a "headerCells" property which would be > the HTML Collection of each of their related "th" > - each cell element could have "rows" and "columns" properties which > would be the HTML collection of each rows and columns covered by their > rowspan and colspan attributes I was looking at this, and I think such an API is very attractive from a theoretical perspective, but I don't really understand what problem it would solve. Can you elaborate on what use cases you have for this? What would the page be doing with this API? > Actually we can use getElementByClassName(), so we often see > > <tr><th id="th1" colspan="2">MySection</th></tr> > <tr><th id="th2" class="child-of-th1" scope="row">MyName</th><td>MyData</td></tr> > <tr><th id="th3" class="child-of-th2" scope="row">+ MySubName</th><td>MySubData</td></tr> > > instead of > > <tr><th id="th1" colspan="2">MySection</th></tr> > <tr><th id="th2" headers="th1" scope="row">MyName</th><td>MyData</td></tr> > <tr><th id="th3" headers="th1 th2" scope="row">+ MySubName</th><td>MySubData</td></tr> Do you have examples of pages that are like this that would benefit from the API you describe? > About "headers" I wonder if this would be acceptable: > > <tr><th id="th1" colspan="2">MySection</th></tr> > <tr><th id="th2" headers="th1" scope="row">MyName</th><td>MyData</td></tr> > <tr><th id="th3" headers="th2" scope="row">+ MySubName</th><td>MySubData</td></tr> > > as for the third row, the th1 header is implicit from the th2 declared header Yup, that is allowed and is defined to work as you'd expect. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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