When using position: "absolute" W3C validator sees invalid html in table.
ChristianHausner opened this issue · 6 comments
Hello,
I'm using floatThead with absolute positioning ($('table').floatThead({position: 'absolute'});) and when I tried to validate the generated DOM with W3C online validator it raises errors like:
Table column 1 established by element “col” has no cells beginning in it.
The generated <table class="floatThead-table"> inside the <div class="floatThead-container"> does not contain a <thead> as long as the table head is not floated and this seems to be an invalid table in terms of HTML5.
See: https://jsfiddle.net/y1prnw30/5/ for a small example.
But when using position: "fixed", the <table class="floatThead-table"> contains the <thead> and valid HTML is generated.
I'm using Firefox 60.6.1 on Windows 10 and floatThead 2.1.3 with jQuery 3.4.0.
Is it possible to generate valid HTML with absolute positioning?
Thanks a lot...
Nope, It is not possible. I am not actively developing new features here and this would require some effort. Sorry about that.
Eh, ill reopen this. Maybe ill fix it someday when I have nothing better to do.
anyway, why do you care about what w3c validator thinks?
Good question... I think its easier for browsers to render the page if it is valid html. But I don't mentioned any rendering issue with common browsers. ...now when I think about, it sounds somehow like a pure academic problem.
Ok. Then I'm going to close this. This plugin has been used in prod in hundreds of places and it works well enough for people since I don't get many open issues :)
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