Bug 742 – Error message "element col has no cells beginning in it"

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Bug 742 - Error message "element col has no cells beginning in it"


Summary:	Error message "element col has no cells beginning in it"

Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL

Product:	Validator.nu
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General
Version:	HEAD
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal
Assigned To:	Nobody

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Reported:	2010-05-05 11:47 CEST by Andreas Kuckartz
Modified:	2010-05-11 13:08 CEST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Andreas Kuckartz 2010-05-05 11:47:41 CEST

I see error messages such as this one for HTML5 code:
Error: Table column 4 established by element col has no cells beginning in it.

I think that this should raise a warning, not an error message.

Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2010-05-06 10:26:40 CEST

In the "Forming a table" section of the HTML5 spec, see step 20: "If there exists a row or column in the table containing only slots that do not have a cell anchored to them, then this is a table model error."

So validator.nu is correctly conforming to the current HTML5 spec by reporting this case as an error.

Comment 2 Andreas Kuckartz 2010-05-11 13:08:28 CEST

Thanks again for the informative reply.

I have created this entry in the W3 HTML5 spec bug database:

Remove step 20 from 'Forming a table' section ("table model error")
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9708