Topic: XHTML 1.0 and thead, tfoot, and tbody

Greets

I've read that if you use thead, you're supposed to use thead, tfoot, and tbody, and that they must be used in that order.

I've seen LOTS of code where there was no tfoot, and omitting it validates fine (interesting).

I'm curious as to what you guys think about using/not using tfoot and the like.

I often find that I'm just trying to "make up something to fill the tfoot" - I rarely have a use for it. I'm glad to hear it validates without it!

Lately I've been just doing something like

<tfoot style="display: none;"><tr><td></td></tr></tfoot>

just to make sure I'm following the rules......

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Pugzly said:

Lately I've been just doing something like

<tfoot style="display: none;">&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tfoot&gt;

just to make sure I'm following the rules......

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What rules? If you don't have a need for it -- leave it out.

Look at the DTD:

<!ELEMENT table

     (caption?, (col*|colgroup*), thead?, tfoot?, (tbody+|tr+))>

That means the following:


A table element MUST contain, in order as specified:
- Zero or one caption elements
- EITHER zero or more col elements OR zero or more colgroup elements
- Zero or one thead elements
- Zero or one tfoot elements
- EITHER one or more tbody elements OR one or more tr elements

(Edited by liorean on 09-04-2004 17:40)

isn't it
- EITHER one or more tbody elements OR one or more tr elements ?

Yeah, that it is.