@@ -2464,10 +2464,12 @@ spec:css22; type:property; text:display
24642464 <h3 id="repeated-headers">Repeating headers across pages</h3>
24652465
24662466 When rendering the document into a paged media,
2467- user agents must repeat
2467+ user agents must try to repeat
24682468 <a href="#table-header-group">header rows</a> and
24692469 <a href="#table-footer-group">footer rows</a>
2470- on each page spanned by a table.
2470+ on each page spanned by a table
2471+ where at least one header row or body row
2472+ was considered to be a <a>content row</a> .
24712473
24722474 When the header rows are being repeated, user agents must
24732475 leave room and if needed render the table top border.
@@ -2478,11 +2480,24 @@ spec:css22; type:property; text:display
24782480 <figcaption> Expected rendering of table with headers and footers fragmented across two pages</figcaption>
24792481 </figure>
24802482
2481- When doing so doesn't leave enough space to insert at least one content row,
2482- users agents must drop the repeated footer.
2483+ When doing so doesn't leave enough space to insert at least one <a> content row</a> ,
2484+ users agents must drop the footer rows which are not content rows (possibly all of them) .
24832485
2484- When doing so still doesn't leave enough space to insert at least one content row,
2485- users agents must drop the repeated header.
2486+ When doing so still doesn't leave enough space to insert at least one <a>content row</a> ,
2487+ users agents must drop the header rows which are not content rows (possibly all of them).
2488+
2489+
2490+ In a given fragmentainer, a table row is considered a <dfn>content row candidate</dfn> if
2491+ it hasn't been included yet in a preceding fragmentainer where it was considered a content row
2492+ (if no preceding fragmentainer exists, all table rows are considered content row candidates);
2493+
2494+ In a given fragmentainer, a table row is considered a <dfn>content row</dfn> if it is in the set of
2495+ all <a>content row candidate</a> s from the table header, if any;
2496+ otherwise, all <a>content row candidate</a> s from the table bodies, if any;
2497+ otherwise, all <a>content row candidate</a> s from the table footer, if any.
2498+
2499+ User agents may consider all header rows and footer rows
2500+ to form an unfragmentable block, to enable rendering the headers and footers the same way on each page.
24862501
24872502 <p class="advisement">
24882503 User agents may decide to extend this behavior to every fragmentation context,
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