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From: julian.rickards
Date: Mar 2, 2004 7:29AM

From what you have shown, I don't think scope would be sufficient. Yout
table is what I describe as a complex table and would therefore need
id/headers attributes but it could be simplified to use only scope or not
even scope.

Take out the table header row and make that text the <caption>.

Combine the "spicyness" name with the rating using either Mild (0-3) or
Mild<br>0-3 and that would reduce rows 2 and 3 to a single row.

The text "Special Price on Select Items" does not describe either the header
cells to the right or the cells below, I would suggest moving this text to
either the <caption> or outside of the table such as a heading preceding the
table (if you use both a heading and a caption, you could put "special
price..." as the caption and salsa sauces as the heading).

You may then wish to replace "Special Price ... " with "Product Names" or
something similar to describe the products below. Considering that the cells
to the right do not relate to each other well (Regular/Sale Price may to
each other but not in combination with Mild/Medium/Spicy: the only
similarity they have is to describe the cell contents below each).

Finally, you are left with one row of headers and data below. This is now a
simple table and, in my books, as long as you mark up the top row with <th>,
you don't really need scope at all although I believe Paul, in another
posting, recommended using it anyway and I don't have a problem with that.

Jules

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