Posted by Michael Fesser on 01/06/08 17:24

..oO(richard)

>On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 08:22:38 -0800 (PST), TonyV <kingskippus@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>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 DTD does (taken from XHTML 1.0):

<!ELEMENT thead (tr)+>
<!ELEMENT tfoot (tr)+>
<!ELEMENT tbody (tr)+>

At least one row is required in each row group.
And the 'tr' element must contain at least one cell:

<!ELEMENT tr (th|td)+>

>The rules are merely looking for
>the tags.
><tfoot></tfoot>

Invalid code.

Micha

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