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From: Angela French
Date: Jul 19, 2017 3:11PM

Hello,

Looking for opinions. How egregious is it to have the first row of a data table be a row containing the paging links and the second row be the table headers?
This rubs me the wrong way, but the .net control we are using does this and it would be significant amount of work to re-engineer it.

Although simplified, this is what I'm describing:

<table>
<tr><td> Page: 1, 2, 3, .... </td></tr>
<tr>
<th>Column heading 1</th>
<th>Column heading 2</th>
Etc.
</tr>
<tr><td>cell 1</td><td>cell 2</td>etc.</tr>
</table>



Thanks,



Angela French
Internet/Intranet Specialist
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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