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The HTML Table API provides powerful attributes like: - "scope" - "headers" - "colspan" - "rowspan" All of them give informations about relationships between the table cells, = rows, and columns It would be very helpful if: - each "th" element could have a "cells" property which would be the HTML = Collection of each "td" they are heading - each "td" element could have a "headerCells" property which would be the= HTML Collection of each of their related "th" - each cell element could have "rows" and "columns" properties which would= be the HTML collection of each rows and columns covered by their rowspan a= nd colspan attributes Actually we can use getElementByClassName(), so we often see <tr><th id=3D"th1" colspan=3D"2">MySection</th></tr> <tr><th id=3D"th2" class=3D"child-of-th1" scope=3D"row">MyName</th><td>MyDa= ta</td></tr> <tr><th id=3D"th3" class=3D"child-of-th2" scope=3D"row">+ MySubName</th><td= >MySubData</td></tr> =20 instead of <tr><th id=3D"th1" colspan=3D"2">MySection</th></tr> <tr><th id=3D"th2" headers=3D"th1" scope=3D"row">MyName</th><td>MyData</td>= </tr> <tr><th id=3D"th3" headers=3D"th1 th2" scope=3D"row">+ MySubName</th><td>My= SubData</td></tr> =20 which would be semantically more expressive and better for screenreaders About "headers" I wonder if this would be acceptable: <tr><th id=3D"th1" colspan=3D"2">MySection</th></tr> <tr><th id=3D"th2" headers=3D"th1" scope=3D"row">MyName</th><td>MyData</td>= </tr> <tr><th id=3D"th3" headers=3D"th2" scope=3D"row">+ MySubName</th><td>MySubD= ata</td></tr> as for the third row, the th1 header is implicit from the th2 declared head= er