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Bug 17581 - HTML5 barfs on colspan errors
Summary: HTML5 barfs on colspan errors
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML Checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC other
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael[tm] Smith
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2012-06-24 00:08 UTC by Douglas H
Modified: 2015-08-23 07:07 UTC (History)
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Description Douglas H 2012-06-24 00:08:36 UTC
Table columns in range 6…10 established by element td have no cells beginning in them.

<td colspan="6"><b>Legend Icons</b></td>

It's protesting that line, HOWEVER, I do have data in the subsequent rows (as in I'm not missing any table cells below.

This has been widely reported as a bug, and I believe it is a bug with the HTML5 validator.

Also, you need to modernize your OS to factor in updated versions of Windows.

Thanks.
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2012-06-27 07:07:25 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Table columns in range 6…10 established by element td have no cells beginning
> in them.
> 
> <td colspan="6"><b>Legend Icons</b></td>
> 
> It's protesting that line, HOWEVER, I do have data in the subsequent rows (as
> in I'm not missing any table cells below.

Please post a complete markup example or a link to your full document.

> This has been widely reported as a bug, and I believe it is a bug with the
> HTML5 validator.

Every case that I've seen reported so far turned out to be caused by invalid markup.

> Also, you need to modernize your OS to factor in updated versions of Windows.

Eh?