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Re: need table help

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From: Chris Heilmann
Date: Jan 18, 2005 11:03AM


>
>> From: lists38
> [...]
>> the attribute is
>> called "headers" not "header".
>
> Fair enough, a typo due to copying the original email and hacking away
> at it.

Ah, no worries.

>> 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.

Coupled with Axis.


> 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).

Nopes, I misunderstood it. See my last email in this thread.


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