Q2049 Do I really need the </TD> and </TR> at the end of a table. I made a table without them and it worked just fine. What gives?

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Q2049 Do I really need the </TD> and </TR> at the end of a table. I made a table without them and it worked just fine. What gives?

You really should. If you only have one table on a page, there won't be any interaction problems. However, if you use images in your table cells, you can run into trouble. Same deal if you have more than one table on a page. You should use them.

James Garacci writes:

You must have them if you use tables in XSL style sheets with XML, always a good idea to close every tag with an end tag. Although to close <BR>, <HR> and <IMG> tags you should really use: <BR />, <HR /> and <IMG />

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• 08:15:13 1/10/01 Dave
• 08:27:59 8/05/00 James Garacci