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Bug 6462 - Self-reference and cyclic references in headers=''
Summary: Self-reference and cyclic references in headers=''
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: a11y, a11y_table_headers
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-01-21 06:55 UTC by Simon Pieters
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:59 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Simon Pieters 2009-01-21 06:55:49 UTC 
[[
The td and th element may have a headers content attribute specified. The headers attribute, if specified, must contain a string consisting of an unordered set of unique space-separated tokens, each of which must have the value of an ID of a th element taking part in the same table as the td or th element (as defined by the table model).
]] -- http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#attr-tdth-headers

This should ban self-reference and maybe cyclic references.
Comment 1 Laura Carlson 2009-02-12 15:55:56 UTC 
For Reference"Cyclic Header Chains" Related Wiki Page:
http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/CyclicHeaderChains
Comment 2 Michael Cooper 2010-02-11 17:26:22 UTC 
Per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html, the HTML A11Y TF does not plan to formally work on this issue at this time. This does not mean the TF has no interest in it, but does not have immediate plans to work on it. The TF may review the issue in the future.