Invalid Error Message for HTML5 Validator - Colspan

[syswriter]

A page contains a table with <td .... colspan="7">.
The error message is "Table columns in range 2..7 established by element td have no cells beginning in them".
This error message does not understand what a colspan attribute does.

[TopStyle Support]

A page contains a table with <td .... colspan="7">.
The error message is "Table columns in range 2..7 established by element td have no cells beginning in them".
This error message does not understand what a colspan attribute does.

HTML 5 Draft: Section 4.9.12.1 Forming a table

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/attributes ... ng-a-table

Step 20: If there exists a row or column in the table containing only slots that do not have a cell anchored to them, then this is a table model error.

[syswriter]

The error message is confusing. It should say:
"No other rows found with number of cells specified by colspan."

[Albert Wiersch]

The error message is confusing. It should say:
"No other rows found with number of cells specified by colspan."

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