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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)
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.
(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.
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
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......
Here's the URL if you want to see it yourself. https://www.metals4uonline.com/value-steel-angle