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Re: Presenting a table without any data

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From: Meacham, Steve - FSA, Kansas City, MO
Date: Feb 21, 2017 4:42PM

Thank you, Ryan and everyone for your help.

In my haste, I may have oversimplified. Here's the exact scenario: A master record is created on one page. The user then navigates to this "add receipts" page, which has a form to fill out on top with an "add" button, and a table at the bottom that accumulates the receipts and presumably allows the user to go back and edit or remove them one by one if necessary. Presumably they can come back to this page at a later time, after some receipts have already been added, and see the table already populated.

Does that clarify? I've attached a really low-res screen print of what I just described. That, BTW, is what I was given to analyze.

- Steve

P.S. Oh...they won't use "caption" or "h1"-"h6" elements, either, because they're ugly and clutter the page. They prefer to wrap entire portions of the page in "fieldset" elements. At a glance, there are even more things worse with the page, but for reasons you can probably imagine, they are off limits to me for now. I apologize for my blatant frustration.