<div> into a <tr>: is it correct?

html html-table tablerow
markzzz picture markzzz · Aug 13, 2011 · Viewed 45k times · Source

Is this code correct?

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>...</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <div>...</div>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>...</td>
    </tr>    
</table>

don't know for semantic (and W3C rules). What can you say about?

Answer

Felix Kling picture Felix Kling · Aug 13, 2011

No it is not valid. tr elements can only contain th and td elements. From the HTML4 specification:

<!ELEMENT TR       - O (TH|TD)+        -- table row -->
<!ATTLIST TR                           -- table row --
  %attrs;                              -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --
  %cellhalign;                         -- horizontal alignment in cells --
  %cellvalign;                         -- vertical alignment in cells --
>

Related questions

How to make td (cell) from html table expand for the row to fit in one line?

In some html cells (td) the text is wrapped because the size of the column is smaller than the size of the text on the cell. I don't want the text to be wrapped, I want the column width to …

Read More
Last td on new line?

I converted some tabular data from word for a client: <table> <tr> <th><p>SPAGHETTI &ndash; Deeg voorgerechten</p></th> </tr> <tr> <…

Read More
Set cellpadding and cellspacing in CSS?

In an HTML table, the cellpadding and cellspacing can be set like this: <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1"> How can the same be accomplished using CSS?

Read More