#### 36.3.5 Choosing a different row-group method

If you set HeadFootBodyTags=Yes, probably you will not want to use RowGroupIDs; use the scope method instead. For example, if you use paragraph format RowGroupHeading for row-group header text, you could specify:

    [HTMLParaStyles]
    RowGroupHeading=RowGroup Scope TableHead

    [StyleCellScope]
    RowGroupHeading=rowgroup

or, if the RowGroupHeading cells actually span the rows in the group:

    [Tables]
    ScopeRowGroup=Yes

either of which produces:

    <tbody>
    <tr><th scope=rowgroup>My Group Head</th><td></td> ... </tr>
    <tr><td></td>... </tr>
    ...
    </tbody>

This provides the association between “My Group Head” and all the cells in the <tbody> section at minimum cost in HTML coding and file size. Only if you cannot use HeadFootBodyTags, perhaps because your target browser does not support it, would you want to use RowGroupIDs for this purpose.

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Parent Topic: 36.3 Using the id/headers method to identify table cells

Sibling Topics:

36.3.1 Choosing an id/headers level

36.3.2 Specifying id/headers attributes for table cells

36.3.3 Grouping header cells for identification

36.3.4 Column-group and row-group extent

36.3.6 Using span attributes to identify rows and columns

36.3.7 Column-span and row-span extent

36.3.8 Identifying individual table cells by row and column

36.3.9 Column and row extent

36.3.10 Using span IDs with row or column IDs