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Re: correct or incorrect use of colgroup

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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Sep 23, 2015 9:50AM

Angela, it seems to me that you've identified a couple of significant issues to file with the CMS development team.

One is the inability to set ID attributes for columns and rows, and the other is the inability to add the colgroup attribute when needed.

Even if it's an open source CMS—and perhaps especially if it's an open source CMS—you might be pleasantly surprised with the turnaround you get.

Cliff Tyllick
Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services
Austin, Texas

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> On Sep 21, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> In addition to scope="colgroup", the WAI tutorials show the user of colgroup like this:
>
> <col>
> <colgroup span="2"></colgroup>
> <colgroup span="2"></colgroup>
>
> And we don't have any way to do that with the CMS
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/tables/irregular/
>
>