I think there was a proposal awhile ago about something like this
actually. Honestly I don't remember.

I see a need for tf but as something different. I want a table
funciton. I think it would be very useful to have something like a tf
tag and then be able to specify a semantic class for it.
E.g. sum, average, minimum, maximum, etc.

Then I could easily include important semantic information that may
not be clear in the actual text of the table.

Orion Adrian

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:31:06 +0000, dwitchell@sportcraftcars.com
<dwitchell@sportcraftcars.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> My question is "Why is there a th (table header) tag / element but not a tf (table footer)?"
> 
> I ran into a situation the other day where I wanted a 'tf' tag. I was able to work around it, but it made me
> curious. Does anyone know? Are there plans for such a tag?
> 
> David
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>