Table Border/Resize ?

[WJ]

I have an Asp.Net form that hosts a "static form", a health history form,
this form is complex because it has uneven columns on different lines.
Example 1st line has 3 columns, 2nd line has 2 and 3rd line has 5. The form
and its colums/box must have black border around them. I am using Html Table
control for this purpose but it does not look good, especially when one
column hosts another table, the border lines would be doubled and it is just
a mess. Do you have any other controls that hanlde this type of form ? Also,
when a nested table exists, it leaves a big gap at the bottom that I cannot
resize (freezed) or close it up to touch the bottom of the inner table.

My goal is to find a layout control that has the same capabilities of
MS/Excel Cell format.

Thanks for your assistance,

John Webb

 

[Martin Eyles]

Sounds like you are trying to use merged cells. This can actually be rowspan
and colspan properties of the <td> and <th> tags. For more info see:-

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.6.1

If multiple borders are a problem, then you can remove them with
stylesheets. See this link:-
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html

Alternatively, you can get rid of tables completely and use <div> tags, with
absolute position, left, right, width and height set in stylesheets. (this
is in fact what visual studio .net grid-layout does by default). Only
problem is, this won't re-flow like the above might.

HTH,
ME

 

[WJ]

Thanks Martin, they are great links. But for futur? Right now I have to just
deal with it one line at a time instead of nested tables to get b?

John

 

[Martin Eyles]

No problem. Can't understand the second bit of your message though. what is
b?

Merry Christmass,

ME

 

[WJ]

Sorry,

The meaning of my reply was: I will learn these links in the future when I
have time. Right now I have no time to learn because of project deadline, so
what I did was to use the Web.Panel layout control (one at a time), then
copy that panel into a one row/one column table (html table), it seems to
work as expected, though not perfect.

BTW: My keyboard needs to be tossed: futur?=future and b?=by. For some odd
reasons, when I press a character, it translated into a "?". Weird and
happen only for certain letters on the keyboard.

Merry Christmas

John