Col as a child of colgroup

[JustTheCoolest]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/col

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

Introduction paragraph

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

The para makes it sound like col must be in a colgroup, but that is not true

What did you expect to see?

Rewrite the paragraph to clarify its intent without leading to this misconception

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.4.2%22%3EW3C:~:text=They%20may%20appear%20inside%20or%20outside%20an%20explicit%20column%20group%20(i.e.%2C%20COLGROUP%20element).

Do you have anything more you want to share?

No response

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Page report details

• Folder: en-us/web/html/element/col
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/col
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/html/element/col/index.md
• Last commit: https://github.com/mdn/content/commit/fffabdeeb9a069e40a070dadeedc93298b2aca7e
• Document last modified: 2024-01-25T23:02:20.000Z