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enriquto • today at 2:53 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

It's not that inconvenient if you omit unnecessary closing tags:

    <tr>
    <td> first
    <td> second
    <tr>
    <td> what
    <td> ever
I find it simpler and cleaner than any of the markdown table markups

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sedatk • today at 8:06 PM

> if you omit unnecessary closing tags

As someone who had written lots of XHTML in the past, not having closing tags makes my eyes twitch like Scrat in Ice Age. I even occasionally write `<br>` like `<br/>` out of habit.

myfonj • today at 3:26 PM

Fair point, though /DT and /DD are also optional just like /TH, /TD and /TR are. So in effect, def…scription list could structurally save you one TR for each entry and two "BLE"s:

    <table><tr><th>Term 1<td>Definition 1
           <tr><th>Term 2<td>Definition 2
    </table>
    <dl><dt>Term 1<dd>Definition 1
        <dt>Term 2<dd>Definition 2
    </dl>
debesyla • today at 2:57 PM

Isn't markdown table just a bunch of | ?

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