Posted by TonyV on 01/06/08 16:22

I've read that in XHTML 1.1, if you have a thead and tbody, you *must*
have a tfoot. Also, according to the specification, it looks like all
three *must* have at least one tr child element, with at least one th
or td child element in it. Here's the spec I'm reading:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_tablemodule

My question is pretty simple. What if you want a table with just a
thead and tbody section, but not with a tfoot section? I don't
understand why I *must* have a cell defined in up to two sections (in
this case, the tfoot section), cells which will be completely blank,
which I suppose means I'll have to use some CSS to make sure it's not
displayed, instead of just not having the section.

Is there a standard practice for what to do if you have a thead and
tbody but not a tfoot?

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