Re: Tables
by "Andrew Angelopoulos" <angelopoulos(at)csi.com>
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Thanks everbody!
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lori Eldridge" <lorield(at)uswest.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: Tables
>
> Hi Andrew and all.
>
> I have been experimenting with columns in Tables. I realized that if
> I want it to break up into several columns I have to provide those
> columns somewhere. Here is a sample of what I'm talking about:
>
> http://www.terrytrueman.com/ttlit/
>
> In the above example I have two tables one above the other (not
> nested) so the page will load quicker. Each table contains menu items
> on the left and 3 columns on the right and 5 rows deep. (I couldn't
> get the text and pictures to line up correctly without an extra
> column.) Then at the bottom row of each table (on the right side of
> the menu) I put a row of
>
> <.td> <./td> <.td> <./td> <.td> <./td>
>
> i.e., the three columns. This takes up extra space at the bottom of
> the table but I couldn't figure out another way to do this. If
> someone has a better idea, please let me know.
>
> If you look at the table it has the menu column on the left and 3 on
> the right with the lst column after the menu (1st row) spanning two
> columns and just the oppose for 2nd row. Then 3rd row spans all
> columns, and same for the 4th with the 5th row containing the empty
> colums as designated above.
>
> Feel free to utilize my code if you want. Fuzzy may be right about
> browsers not spaning anything more than 3 columns but you might
> experiment with doing the same thing I did above for 17 columns, but
> remember you may have to tell some of your data to span x number of
> columns.
>
> BTW, I also had to insert rowspan=5 also to get the menu to go down
> the left side of the 5 rows.
>
> Lori
>
>
> >Whoops. Of course, it's all obvious after the fact.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Andrew
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Mike O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>
> >To: "Andrew Angelopoulos" <angelopoulos(at)csi.com>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 9:00 AM
> >Subject: Re: Tables
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Well Andrew, for starters you only have THREE columns in the table.
> >>
> >> Asking the browser to "properly" interpret a col span definition of
"15"
> >is
> >> a bit much. For that matter, asking it to render any definition
greater
> >> than THREE is asking a bit much of the browser.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >> Fuzzy.
> >>
> >>
> >> At 08:30 AM 12/12/00 -0600, Andrew Angelopoulos wrote:
> >> >(Resent. Sorry if this is the second time, but I never saw the first
one
> >> >appear)
> >> >
> >> >Help. This is making me nuts!
> >> >
> >> >What am I doing wrong?
> >> >
> >> >Look at the sample below and find the table data with the letter "M"
If
> >> >colspan is missing or set to 1 is looks like colspan is set to 8 or
9. In
> >> >IE, if cellspacing is set to 3 it works just fine. If I set COLSPAN
to 2
> >it
> >> >works just fine in IE and NN (regardless of cellspacing setting).
What is
> >> >going on????
> >> >
> >> >Andrew
> >> >
> >> >btw- there are 17 cols (I've tried using the same and different
number of
> >> >cols in each row--same result).
> >> >
> >> ><HTML>
> >> ><BODY>
> >> ><TABLE align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1">
> >> ><TR>
> >> ><TD colspan="15">XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</TD>
> >> ><TD colspan="2"> </TD>
> >> ></TR>
> >> ><TR>
> >> ><TD colspan="7">1234</TD>
> >> ><TD colspan="1">M</TD>
> >> ><TD colspan="9">LAST</TD>
> >> ></TR>
> >> ></TABLE>
> >> ></BODY>
> >> ></HTML>
> >> >
> >> >
>
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