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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I recall a while back trying to figure out how to
style columns of a complex table that occured below the nth</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>row of a table. I discovered that if I just used
<col style> and moved those <col>'s down to the appropriate
row,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>IE was okay with that and did what I wanted but the
other browsers not only didn't but became very upset with me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So instead, I created multiple <tbody> tags
and applied the styling cols just before the second <tbody>.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It rather worked (or at least it did for most web
users). Nowadays, the trick still seems to work in IE, but causes just as much
problem in other browsers (and maybe a wee bit more) as it used to.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I gather from my cursory look at the treatment of
<table> and <tbody> in HTML5, that my legacy content should be
resuscitated in HTML5. Am I correct in thinking that <tbody> will function
sort of like <colgroup> but for rows instead of columns and that applying
separate styles to different <tbody>s in a table will be the way to do
things in the spec?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>cheers</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David</FONT></DIV>
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