I usually say go ahead and use thead and tbody for semantic completeness. If you're doing anything funky with Javascript, then you can "group" table rows by having multiple table bodies (yes, that's legal!) and then operate on each tbody separately. Don't waste time with tfoot. It's broken. Completely. The W3C had this brilliant idea to require tfoot to go before tbody, so if you have a footer row it appears before the body unless you have a browser that knows to shift it to the end of the table, out of lexical order. Such a browser does not exist. It's completely backward-incompatible. It's one of the dumbtest things the W3C has ever done. But yeah, tbody and thead are fine, go ahead and use those. :-) If nothing else they're useful for when you start manipulating the table with Javascript. On Sunday 13 May 2007, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 11:45 am, C.R.Vegelin wrote: > > I hope it's not the wrong place to ask, but has anyone experience with > > scrolling HTML tables ? > > Actually, it *is* the wrong place to ask... :-v > > > According http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_thead.asp > > "The thead, tfoot and tbody elements enable you to group rows in a > > table. > > When you create a table, you might want to have a header row, some > > rows with data, and a row with totals at bottom. > > This division enables browsers to support scrolling of table bodies > > independently of the table header and footer." > > > > I don't want to reinvent the wheel in own software. > > Or is it better to ignore these tags because of bad browser support ? > > I've never seen any browser do anything useful with these goofy tags... > > But the Designers seem to luv them... > > If you really want scrolling, you'd better put them in a DIV or > IFRAME, I think. > > -- > Some people have a "gift" link here. > Know what I want? > I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. > http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch > Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
