Ask HN: Isn't it strange that TFOOT must be placed between THEAD and TBODY?

1 points by webuiarchitect 15 years ago | 3 comments

In an HTML <table>, 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?

mooism2 15 years ago |

So 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.

mdaniel 15 years ago | |

This was exactly my answer, before I realized that "webuiarchitect" posted the question 3 times. :-(

jsavimbi 15 years ago |

Note: <tfoot> must appear before <tbody> 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.