is <tbody> necessary for good coding?

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is <tbody> necessary or recommended for good coding of tables? i have no thead or tfoot, should i have a tbody though?

[foreverhex]

Im not really sure why you would use it other than to seperate your tr and td tags. That way you can have a class tag in just a sertain area. I don't use them at all though.

[AndyB]

It's all about accessibility, so it could be construed as a recommended practice.

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/tables/tablesaccessibility.html

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[quote author=AndyB link=topic=102157.msg405108#msg405108 date=1154093912]
It's all about accessibility, so it could be construed as a recommended practice.

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/tables/tablesaccessibility.html
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It could be an accessibility advantage, preventing a user from setting undesirable browser options, but if the user knows what they're doing then maybe it's an accessibility problem to restrict/define things so much...

i'm not really sure, but i never like to trust a site that gets so mesed up when u click view > text size > largest  ::)

[AndyB]

[quote author=Chat link=topic=102157.msg405215#msg405215 date=1154105274]
It could be an accessibility advantage, preventing a user from setting undesirable browser options, but if the user knows what they're doing then maybe it's an accessibility problem to restrict/define things so much...[/quote]

huh? It's accessible in the sense that it makes tables more comprehensible to screen readers, i.e. vision-impaired users. I'm hard pressed to see how that could be a problem.