HTML tables

[l612]

Hi,

Is there any possibility to have an html table "row" that spreads over
more than one line ?

A row with many columns ordinarily leads to an horizontal scrollbar. A
carriage return would be better. But simply closing the row and opening
a new row implies that in the first column, the two cells from the two
rows have the same width, ie probably the same type, on so on for the
second, third ... columns. A possibility one might think about would be
to open a new table for each line, which eliminates the first problem.
But the theader and tfoot functionality is lost in this case, not to
mention other misalignments problems due to the navigator's width
determination algorithm.

Any idea would be greatly appreciated.

Loïc

 

[Ethan Schlenker]

Is there any possibility to have an html table "row" that spreads over
more than one line ?

I believe what you are looking for is the 'colspan' element. There's a
short tutorial for using it here:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/htmltut/tables/index_famsupp_30.html

And if you search google for: colspan tutorial

you'll get a good number of helpful results.

Ethan

 

[Owen Jacobson]

Hi,

Is there any possibility to have an html table "row" that spreads over
more than one line ?

A row with many columns ordinarily leads to an horizontal scrollbar. A
carriage return would be better. But simply closing the row and opening
a new row implies that in the first column, the two cells from the two
rows have the same width, ie probably the same type, on so on for the
second, third ... columns. A possibility one might think about would be
to open a new table for each line, which eliminates the first problem.
But the theader and tfoot functionality is lost in this case, not to
mention other misalignments problems due to the navigator's width
determination algorithm.

Your main objection seems to be the horizontal scrollbar that comes up for
wide content. Unless you're doing something else to make the rest of your
content wider, the table should be the only element wider than the
viewport[0]. Personally, I don't see that as a problem.

[0] Asciimatic diagram:

+--viewport--------+
| text text text |
| words words text |
| |
| ---table-------------------------- this is the only horizontal
| | column 1 | column 2 | column n | <-- scrolling part, the rest of
| ---------------------------------- the page fits in one screen
| |
| next paragraph |
| of more text |
+------------------+