ISSUE-57: [dup of 20] @headers
[dup] headers
[dup of 20] @headers
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- HTML 5 spec
- Raised by:
- Joshue O Connor
- Opened on:
- 2008-07-17
- Description:
- The current wording for the headers attribute only allows the space separated token values to reference the id attribute of a header cell(th). It states
"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 ..."
As hierarchical headers are not allowed in HTML5, this means that conceptual headers (cells that contain data and have their own header,but act as a header for other cells in the table) must be marked up as a td. As these cells are conceptually headings, the headers attribute should be able to reference the id attribute of these cells.
Related References
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5822
http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/IssueTableHeaders
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2007May/0049.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jun/0145.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Mar/0215.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular.html#headers - Related Actions Items:
- No related actions
- Related emails:
- HTML WG telcon 2008-08-28 (from Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com on 2008-08-26)
- ISSUE-57 (Joshue): @headers [HTML 5 spec] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2008-07-17)
Related notes:
It is worth noting that ISSUE-20 and ISSUE-57 have considerable overlap.. you may need to bounce around between these two issue's mailing list discussion to get a complete picture.
Shawn Medero, 17 Jul 2008, 17:11:37@Shawn: Noted, thanks.
this is a dup of ISSUE-20 table-headers
Dan Connolly, 21 Aug 2008, 16:43:23Display change log
