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Re: Proposed: a TN tag to join TH and TD?

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Jun 13, 2013 3:08PM

Yucca - fascinating - thanks!

> Conceivably, the specification
> might be changed to allow <th scope="row column">, but then we would
> need some way of writing the two headers into one cell. It would be
> possible of course, but I reallt cannot tell what might be a natural way.


Interestingly (and not to the Dummy case at all, but nonetheless) in PDF 1.7 (ISO 32000-1 14.8.5.7, Table 349) a TH tag may have a Scope of "Row", "Column", or…. (drumroll…) "Both".

Here's how the Scope attribute is defined in ISO 32000-1:

"A name whose value shall be one of
the following: Row, Column, or Both. This attribute shall only be used
when the structure type of the element is TH. (see Table 337). It shall
reflect whether the header cell applies to the rest of the cells in the row
that contains it, the column that contains it, or both the row and the
column that contain it."

Now… embarrassingly, Scope was only added to PDF in 2003. That said, it wouldn't have happened unless it had been implemented...

;)

Duff.