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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Feb 21, 2013 5:47AM

All,

I am working with somebody who has a long table 60+ rows. Right now they
are more or less throwing table headers in as you scroll down.

I cannot throw aria-hidden on them because everybody (intranet page) is
using IE8.
The owner won't split the table up into smaller ones (there is some natural
groupings).
I suggested maybe wrapping the rows in a tbody, give it a decent height,
then have it scroll. The owner wants the table to fill the page.

Putting <th>'s in the table, mid-table, which doesn't give new information
just feels weird. The only other thing I can think of is make them normal
cells, and style them like the headers.

Thoughts?

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Ryan E. Benson