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Re: need table help

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Jan 18, 2005 10:05AM

> From: lists38
[...]
> the attribute is
> called "headers" not "header".

Fair enough, a typo due to copying the original email and hacking away
at it.

> You cannot link to a TD via
> headers, you
> need to link to a TH.

So why does this sort of thing appear in the WCAG1.0 techniques?
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#identifying-table-rows-columns
See third example.

>
>
>
> Name
> Status
>
>
>
>
> Person
> Status
>
>
> Person
> Status
>
>
>

Unless I misunderstood Darrel's original question, the table he
wanted to mark up was a complex table, while the solution you
propose turns it into a simple table which looses some of the
associations (employers are tied both to name/status and
person/status).

Patrick
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