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Asked: 2026-05-26T21:06:18+00:00

I am trying to create a table in an XHTML document shown below (only

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I am trying to create a table in an XHTML document shown below (only relevant parts shown for brevity sake):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head></head>
    <body>
      <table class="dataTable">
       <tfoot><tr><td class="tableFooter" colspan="4"><span>&copy;&nbsp;example.com</span></td></tr></tfoot>
       <tbody>
           <tr id = "firstRowHeader">
               <th class="rowLabel">&nbsp;
               <th class ="rowCol colHeader">ABC
               <th class ="rowCol colHeader">CDE
               <th class ="rowCol colHeader">EFG
           <tr><td class ="rowCategory" colspan ="4">Foo
           <tr><td class="rowLabel"
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataDown">-0.01%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">0.09%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">717.79
           <tr><td class="rowLabel"
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataUp">0.00%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">0.08%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">1,032.02
           <tr><td class="rowLabel"
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataUp">-0.04%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">0.03%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">819.17
           <tr><td class="rowLabel"
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataUp">-0.03%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">0.05%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">877.45
           <tr><td class="rowLabel"
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataUp">-0.00%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">0.09%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">991.57
           <tr><td class="rowLabel"
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataUp">-0.02%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">0.05%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">835.42
           <tr><td class="rowLabel"
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataUp">0.00%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">0.05%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">1,002.40
           <tr><td class="rowLabel"
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataDown">-0.01%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">0.05%
               <td class ="rowCol cellDataNoChange">860.27
       </tbody>
      </table>

    </body>
</html>

When I run this doc through the w3c validator, I got several errors of the variety – Document type does not allow ‘th’ (or ‘td’) here. Can someone point out how to fix this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re not closing any of your <td> or <tr> tags with </tr> or </td>. Also, you’ve missed a > off all of your <td> tags.

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