Posted by matt on 09/20/06 14:53

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Waiddaminnit. You said you had data in blocks of three rows. Yet you
> illustrated three _single_rows_, each in a separate <tbody>.

so i did. glaring omission; i was pretty burnt out working on it last
nite.

updated HTML, but the problem is still the same as described -- IE 6
(win) inserts breaks directly into the <TBODY>s, even while using the
previously mentioned page-break instructions. this is confusing to me.
im not sure if IE is failing to "avoid" doing page breaks on my
<TBODY>s because A) its not supported, or B) because my attempts havent
been correct. (i dont have the HTML typos in my actual markup. they are
more complex tables which i reduced to simpler examples in google's
textbox for posting [no newsgroups fun at my org], probably in too much
of a hurry).


<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>header 1</th>
<th>header 2</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>header 3</th>
<th>header 4</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>header 5</th>
<th>header 6</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>footer 1</td>
<td>footer 2</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>

<!-- dont break this block -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>block 1, row 1, col 1</td>
<td>block 1, row 1, col 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>block 1, row 2, col 1</td>
<td>block 1, row 2, col 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>block 1, row 3, col 1</td>
<td>block 1, row 3, col 2</td>
</tr>
</tbody>

<!-- dont break this block -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>block 2, row 1, col 1</td>
<td>block 2, row 1, col 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>block 2, row 2, col 1</td>
<td>block 2, row 2, col 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>block 2, row 3, col 1</td>
<td>block 2, row 3, col 2</td>
</tr>
</tbody>

<!-- dont break this block -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>block 3, row 1, col 1</td>
<td>block 3, row 1, col 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>block 3, row 2, col 1</td>
<td>block 3, row 2, col 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>block 3, row 3, col 1</td>
<td>block 3, row 3, col 2</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


thanks,
matt

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