Tidy table missing summary

[MrData]

Dear all,

I'm a first time user of Rapid PHP and currently evaluating.

I'm a fond 'cleaner' of my code and therefor started using Tidy on my existing (HTML) code, before continuing to PHP cleaning.

Although I found that Tidy is a third-party module, I assume that plenty of people here have come across the same message as me after tidying:

"warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute"

As I use, as do many, tables across all of my HTML pages and most do not need an explanatory 'summary', I would like to have Tidy NOT check for this attribute.

I've tested with many attribute in Tidy settings, but the warning remains.

How can I turn off the check for "summary" attribute in Tidy ?

Your reply is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Gerard

[syrupcore]

Tidy is doing it's job! Tidy is checking the validity of your code. It's a w3c rec that all tables have a summary attribute.

two options come to mind:

a)consider abandoning tables for layout (css aint that hard)
b)include a summary! summary="layout table" will let some one with a screen reader know not to look for tabular data in your table (which is what tables are meant for).