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Bug 9076 - Wrong Error: Table column 2 established by element td has no cells beginning in it.
Summary: Wrong Error: Table column 2 established by element td has no cells beginning ...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML Checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
URL: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=htt...
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Reported: 2010-02-18 23:44 UTC by Andreas Bonini
Modified: 2015-08-23 07:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Andreas Bonini 2010-02-18 23:44:55 UTC
The HTML 5 validator appears to complain about:

<table>
<tr><td colspan="2">...</td></tr>
</table>

even though to the best of my knowledge the HTML 5 spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular-data.html) doesn't say it's illegal.

(You might also be interested in the discussion at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2292947/help-with-html-validation-error-table-column-has-no-cells-beginning-in-it)
Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2010-02-19 17:42:09 UTC
This seems to be reproducible using validator.nu as well, so I'm closing it here.

The reasoning can be found in the updated bug reporting instructions regarding HTML 5 at http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/feedback.html#bugreport (see the end of that document) which will go live to validator.w3.org soon.
Comment 2 Will Gray 2011-04-22 00:00:26 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> This seems to be reproducible using validator.nu as well, so I'm closing it
> here.
> 
> The reasoning can be found in the updated bug reporting instructions regarding
> HTML 5 at http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/feedback.html#bugreport (see the end
> of that document) which will go live to validator.w3.org soon.

I'm re-opening this bug. W3C posts on their site that they are using the same validator. Whether that's actually the case or not, only they know. Regardless, I get an error on one of my own pages, as described in my comment here: (from "Will")  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2292947/help-with-html-validation-error-table-column-has-no-cells-beginning-in-it/5750566#5750566

Check this page against either validator:  http://www.greenwichlibrary.org/Children/

Then check the source. Each table containing the cell with a colspan of 2 has that cell as the 2nd cell, with 4 cells across total. Either there should be no error, or maybe someone can explain exactly why the error is occurring? Also, I know the next cell (which the validator is complaining about) has style of "display:hidden", but even when I remove that style, the error still occurs, so that is NOT the cause.
Comment 3 Will Gray 2011-04-22 16:03:40 UTC
I've added this to the Validator.nu Bugzilla bug list:  http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=826

I'd prefer to see this left open here as well though, at least until the bug is addressed by them (but do as you will...).

--Will
Comment 4 JCDisciple 2014-12-09 18:38:39 UTC
I am still getting this error. HTML5, UTF-8
"Table column 2 established by element td has no cells beginning in it."

Here's the markup for the TABLE:

    <table class="cobtbl">
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td class="prodnavigation" colspan="2">
                    <p class="prodnavigation">Content Here</p>
                </td>
                <td></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="3"></td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>


Please advise......
Comment 5 JCDisciple 2014-12-09 18:40:30 UTC
Here's the URL if you want to see it yourself.
https://www.metals4uonline.com/value-steel-angle