Colin,

> Incidentally (and not on topic for your question)
> <td/>
> is not valid in either HTML or XHTML.

It's valid XHTML for an empty table cell.

> Also, <td> does not have a 'type' attribute. I believe browsers
> generally do let you set an arbitrary attribute (though I haven't
> found anything in the HTML spec that explicitly permits it)...

It is in fact verboten.  In HTML5, though, we're allowed to use our
own attributes as long as their names start with "data-", e.g.:

    <td data-foo='bar'>

...is valid but

    <td foo='bar'>

...is not.
--
T.J. Crowder
tj / crowder software / com
Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available

On Aug 18, 4:03 pm, ColinFine <colin.f...@pace.com> wrote:
> On Aug 10, 3:53 pm, molo <maurice_lowent...@ssga.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks so much T.J., that was the problem. I never would have gotten
> > that
>
> Incidentally (and not on topic for your question)
> <td/>
> is not valid in either HTML or XHTML.
>
> Also, <td> does not have a 'type' attribute. I believe browsers
> generally do let you set an arbitrary attribute (though I haven't
> found anything in the HTML spec that explicitly permits it), but it
> seems an odd thing to do: did you mean to say 'class="text"'?
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