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Bug 28323 - Contexts in which this element can be used:
Summary: Contexts in which this element can be used:
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-col...
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-03-24 11:09 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2015-08-28 17:39 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description contributor 2015-03-24 11:09:18 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/tables.html
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-col-element
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-col-element
Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

Comment:
Contexts in which this element can be used:
As a child of a colgroup element that doesn't have a span attribute.


This is not sufficient, it could be also a child of table, or not?

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Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2015-03-24 12:31:02 UTC 
(In reply to contributor from comment #0)
> Contexts in which this element can be used:
> As a child of a colgroup element that doesn't have a span attribute.
> 
> This is not sufficient, it could be also a child of table, or not?

Not in the DOM:

  http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0A%3Ctable%3E%0A%3Ccol%3E

But the start tag for the colgroup element can be omitted.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2015-08-28 17:39:29 UTC 
resolving per comment 1 (and no follow-up response from OP to question it)