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Old 09-21-2019, 09:02 AM   #6
lomtickofbooks
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Originally Posted by Turtle91 View Post
I agree with this report....but it ONLY happens if you do not include the <table> tags around the <tr>/<td> tags. The "mend" function doesn't know it's supposed to be a table without the <table> tags...and removes the <tr>/<td> tags.
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Originally Posted by KevinH View Post
Yes, the table tag is required in xhtml.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Why would anyone try to create a table without the table tags?
I'm just now learning HTML.

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Originally Posted by KevinH View Post
That said, it is not even valid html to use tr without at least an opening table tag.
Thanks everyone!! Sigil saves the ePub correctly if I add the table tags.
I had originally made an overly fussy table using the site I posted and in the process of manually removing the code I didn't want, I hacked off the table tags. I guess what blinded me to this mistake was that both Sigil and Calibre display the table in the preview window without showing any errors and Calibre successfully saves the ePub even with my badly written HTML code. Plus all the readers I tried, show the page with the flawed table code just fine. It goes to show flexible eBook readers are with badly written code!
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