In an HTML , the TFOOT element must be placed between THEAD And TBODY. http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/tables/tfoot.html. What could be the reason behind this?
Ask HN: Isn't it strange that TFOOT must be placed between THEAD and TBODY?
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Re: Ask HN: Isn't it strange that TFOOT must be placed between THEAD and TBODY?
#2So that if the tbody is set up with its own scroll bar, the initial parts of the tbody can appear between the thead and the tfoot before the tbody has finished downloading.
Re: Ask HN: Isn't it strange that TFOOT must be placed between THEAD and TBODY?
#3So that if the tbody is set up with its own scroll bar, the initial parts of the tbody can appear between the thead and the tfoot before the tbody has finished downloading.
This was exactly my answer, before I realized that "webuiarchitect" posted the question 3 times. :-(
Re: Ask HN: Isn't it strange that TFOOT must be placed between THEAD and TBODY?
#4Note: must appear before within a table, so that a browser can render the foot before receiving all the rows of data.
^^I saw that on my first google search.