[html5] using colspan with nested html tables

[Larry Martell]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Brian Tremblay <webmaster at tsmchughs.com> wrote:
> On 5/7/14, 2:18 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Brian Tremblay wrote:
>>>
>>> On 5/7/14, 12:24 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please see my question at stackoverflow:
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>>>>
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>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23505433/using-colspan-with-nested-html-tables
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>>> I did look over the question quickly, and I can't see why you need to
>>> nest
>>> tables. You should be able to do pretty much anything you want with css
>>> applied to a single table.
>>
>>
>> We want to use a sorting package that requires adding a class to the
>> table to be sorted. The way the table is now (i.e. as a single table
>> with 4 rows of headers) it will only sort on the first header row. We
>> want to sort on the 4th header row.
>
>
> So the package extracts the data from the html markup?

Yes, it's all done on the client side.