THEAD and TBODY are great structural elements as well. TFOOT would be too, if it were well-supported in browsers. Alas. I have another post on how THEAD and TBODY can be used to structure a table such that it can be presented as a Windows Explorer-style folder tree. I say, use all the tools you have :-)

Nick, I understand where you’re coming from. I’m actually a very upbeat guy, not unhappy at all. It’s more a matter of asking people to help me help them. Sometimes people post followup questions to the concepts I discuss, but don’t tell me enough so I can be helpful. Examples are on how to find missing values in a sequence with SQL and flexible insert and update statements in SQL. I’m not alone in this regard. Look at any of Joe Celko’s posts on newsgroups or forums and his signature is even more blunt than my request. It’s really hard to say anything meaningful about someone’s problem without knowing how the data is structured.

Thanks for your comments, both of you!

“make sure you include enough information for me to make an intelligent response.”…

How happy are you in life? Sheesh!

Is there a reason why the samples in the W3c spec don’t have closed cells and rows? Just seemed strange to me.

Thanks again!