td colspan example in Template Syntax guide

[mattdistefano]

Looking at https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/template-syntax.html#!#other-bindings I see this:

As the message says, the element does not have a colspan property. It has the "colspan" attribute, but interpolation and property binding can set only properties, not attributes.

This is technically correct, but according to MDN table cells do have a colSpan property that maps to the colspan attribute, so this seems like a poor example of when an attr. attribute binding is required.

[Foxandxss]

Completely true. We need to think of an alternative that makes more sense.

[mattdistefano]

It's referenced up a bit in the 'HTML attribute vs. DOM property' callout too. Some HTML attributes don't have corresponding properties. colspan is one example.

Also might need to be an issue on angular itself? Seems like there's some translation magic happening to allow binding via attribute or property name, but this may be missing (or perhaps there's a valid reason not to use the colSpan property).