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From: Kitzzy Aviles
Date: Mar 19, 2002 7:48AM



Kitzzy Aviles
Techranger Development & Training Specialist
Course Development & Web Services
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If you are using a table for layout, are you supposed to have a table header
at all? The way this reads it sounds as if you wouldn't even use a table
header.
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Thats correct. You only use TH and the scope or headers and ID attributes if its a data table.

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Also, when using tables to create a layout, do not use structural markup to
create visual formatting. For example, the TH (table header) element, is
usually displayed visually as centered, and bold. If a cell is not actually
a header for a row or column of data, use style sheets or formatting
attributes of the element.

Say you just had one table that had 3 cells. One for email address, one for
name, and one for a submit button. Isn't it appropriate to not have a table
header on that kind of table?
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If you just have them next to each other for layout, then no, you would not use a TH on it. But if its table with more than one email and name, then yes you need to use a TH.

For example:

my email here | my name here | submit

that does not require TH, all you are doing is putting them side to side

email | name | submit
email1 | name1 | submit1
email2 | name2 | submit2

That does require a TH in email, name and submit AND for you to as