Posted by richard on 01/06/08 16:53

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 08:22:38 -0800 (PST), TonyV <kingskippus@gmail.com>
wrote:

>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?

Nothing says it has to have content. The rules are merely looking for
the tags.
<tfoot></tfoot>
If you have to have content, color it the same color as the background
and let it disappear.

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