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“Start tag in table body” message for <thead><th></th></thead> is confusing

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the report with the HTML snippet in the issue and inspect where the “Start tag in table body” diagnostic is generated. The issue is resolved when the validation message for this thead/th example is made less confusing, but the report does not specify the desired wording or name a test or source file.

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Description

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html code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p></p>
<table>
    <thead>
        <th></th>
    </thead>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Dominant language
Java
Stars
65
Forks
29
Avg merge
11d 21h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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