Re: The remaining issues list

Dave Raggett (dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Thu, 23 Mar 95 11:14:58 EST

Paul Grosso writes:

> How should the following table be rendered?

> <table>
> <tr><td rowspan=2>1<td>2<td>3<td>4<td>5
> <tr><td rowspan=2>6
> <tr><td colspan=2>7<td>8
> </table>

/--------------------\
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| |---------------| The cells labelled 6 and 7 overlap!
| | 6 | | | |
|----|...|-----------|
| 7 : | 8 | | |
\--------------------/

I am modifying the HTML 3.0 proposal to make it clear that when cells
overlap, the rendering is implementation dependent.

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> url = http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Filton Road, | tel: +44 117 922 8046
Bristol BS12 6QZ, United Kingdom | fax: +44 117 922 8924