- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 04:17:35 +1000
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- CC: W3C Style List <www-style@w3.org>
Orion Adrian wrote: > Couldn't this problem simply be solved by removing the presentational > attributes "colspan" and "rowspan". They're not presentational at all. They're structural, and it is not always semantically correct to simply duplicate the values in each cell in place of colspan and/or rowspan. For example, marking up a timetable of classes. The time of the day along one axis, and the days of the week along the other. ____|_09:00_|_10:00_|_11:00_|_12:00_|_13:00_|_14:00_|_15:00_|_16:00 Mon | Maths | English |Science| Lunch | Computers | Tue | ... Notice how some classes, English and Computers, span two hours each. They're not two seperate consecutive 1 hour classes — they're both 2 hour classs. To mark that up without colspan by duplicating the name in each cell would be semantically incorrect. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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