Re: techniques for tables (clarifying how to handle nested tables for the ER group)

I would have thought that whatever technique is used to apply headers to a
table cell should still apply, except the headers would then apply to the
whole of the nested table.

CHrles McCN

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Wendy A Chisholm wrote:

  hello,
  
  in the Evaluation and Repair Tools working group we have been discussing 
  how to evaluate and repair tables.  Particularly, nested tables.
  
  if nested tables are used to present data, is there a way to associate the 
  cells in the inner table with header cells in the outer table?  I would 
  assume that axis and headers could work  across tables (if a UA was built 
  that way).  However, in HTML 4.0 the only values for "scope" are row, col, 
  rowgroup, and colgroup.  so, it seems that "scope" could *not* be an inner 
  table.
  
  Nested tables seem less of a problem for layout tables. I propose that the 
  evaluation and repair is to handle each table separately, like Mark Novak's 
  HelpDB tool.
  
  --wendy
  <>
  wendy a chisholm (wac)
  world wide web consortium (w3c)
  web accessibility initiative (wai)
  madison, wisconsin (madcity, wi)
  united states of america (usa)
  tel: +1 608 663 6346
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