- From: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@bryant-greene.name>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:14:59 +1200
- To: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Strongly agree. There is no reason I can think of not to permit nested row- and colgroups. Jasper Jim Jewett wrote: > [Also sent to www-html-editor] > > It is fairly common to sort tabular data by multiple columns -- > implicitly creating nested rowgroups. > > Neither colgroup nor any of the rowgroup instantiations (tbody, thead, > tfoot) can nest. > > In the past, this was needed for backwards compatibility -- colgroup > elements were implicitly closed by the next colgroup. In XHTML 2.0, > all elements will have closing tags, so it is possible to distinguish > a nested colgroup from an adjacent one. Given this, I believe nested > colgroups and (rowgroups) should be permitted. > > -jJ
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