Re: table headers - clear description of problem

On Aug 26, 2008, at 18:53, Gez Lemon wrote:

> This can sometimes be overcome (if there are no totals or
> other aggregate data that usually go in the last columns) by
> reordering the columns, but using conceptual headers marked up as tds
> with headers/id to create the association allows analysts to order the
> columns how they want.


Isn't the markup abusing the semantics of HTML if cells that are  
conceptually header cells aren't marked up as <th>?

Why not mark all the header cells as <th> and enable hierarchical  
headers by allowing a <th> cell to point to another <th> using the  
headers attribute?

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Henri Sivonen
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