On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:37:31 +0100, Elliotte Harold
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Homework 1 Homework 2 Homework 3
John Smith 87 86 98
Jane Jones 100 78 98
Fred Wilde 89 65 69
I'd mark this up as follows:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="2">Homework 1</th>
<th>Homework 2</th>
<th>Homework3</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th scope="row">John Smith</th>
<td><input ...></td>
<td><input ...></td>
<td><input ...></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I think this gives enough semantics for the UA to defer that "John Smith"
is the label, header or whatever you might call it, for all of the
successive td columns. The same applies for the td's in <thead>, which by
default have 'scope="col"' (not DOM-wise, but semantically).
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#adef-scope>
Anyone else want to chime in here? Has anybody else noticed a need that
would be solved by essentially changing the for attribute from IDREF to
IDREFS? Thoughts?
I wouldn't be against it, but considering the accessibility use in
<label>, I can't quite get how it's supposed to work when it points to
several different elements. A "click" event against the label now triggers
focus() on the target element. What is supposed to happen in your use case?
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