“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
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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