swap column in a html table

[SAN CAZIANO]

how can i swap column in a html table ???

 

[Martin Honnen]

how can i swap column in a html table ???

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/32355

 

[Ivo]

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/32355

Quote from that page:
"Note that this simply shows how to do the column swap, I haven't tested
that with very large tables but I think it might be better to first hide
the table, then do all the cell swapping and later show the table again
to avoid that the browser has to adapt the table rendering each time a
cell is moved."

It is strange that such a good script should be followed by such ill advise.
Re-rendering is done only when the javascript has come to an end after
looping through all rows, so there is really no need to first hide the
table.

 

[Martin Honnen]

Quote from that page:
"Note that this simply shows how to do the column swap, I haven't tested
that with very large tables but I think it might be better to first hide
the table, then do all the cell swapping and later show the table again
to avoid that the browser has to adapt the table rendering each time a
cell is moved."

It is strange that such a good script should be followed by such ill advise.
Re-rendering is done only when the javascript has come to an end after
looping through all rows, so there is really no need to first hide the
table.

Well I have written "might be better" and that I have not tested whether
it improves things. How do you know for sure that all browsers suspend
rerendering until script is done?

 

[Ivo]

Well I have written "might be better" and that I have not tested whether
it improves things. How do you know for sure that all browsers suspend
rerendering until script is done?

I don't. Who knows all browsers?
But the browsers that I do know work this way, regardless of table lengths.