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Repeating HTML Table Headers on Each Printed Page

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Why is this not a default property of thead elements? Why does it need to be turned on? Not that this is the greatest injustice in the history of CSS but it seems more straight-forward than agreeing on a box model, anyway...

The CSS2 spec even explictly equates table-header-group with the THEAD element: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html#table-display

In Firefox, at least, thead elements do default to display: table-header-group. Perhaps this is a quirk of IE or Safari to do with rendering legacy content?

I don't like to unnecessarily bash on Microsoft but the quote of today has to be:

  "Microsoft releasing a half assed product? I find that hard to believe, sir!"

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