Advanced (custom) tables

Summary:

do not seem to work as described.

Advanced (custom) tables

fanac 15 Aug 2011 16:56

If

To create more advanced tables, special tags can be used that can accept class and style attributes for managing appearance. To create an advanced table use the following syntax:

is true why does this WikiDot page content

[[table class="index"]]
[[table]]
[[row]]
[[cell class="name"]]
[[# charles-lee-jackson]]
Charles Lee Jackson
[[/cell]]
[[cell class="links"]]
| **[[[lasfs | LASFS]]]** |
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[cell class="name"]]
[[# carl-jacobi]]
Carl Jacobi
[[/cell]]
[[cell class="links"]]
| **[[[mfs | MFS]]]** |
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]

produce this HTML

<table>
<tr>
<td><a name="charles-lee-jackson"></a><br />
Charles Lee Jackson</td>
<td>| <strong><a href="/lasfs">LASFS</a></strong> |</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="carl-jacobi"></a><br />
Carl Jacobi</td>
<td>| <strong><a href="/mfs">MFS</a></strong> |</td>

with absolutely no class?

Sorry, couldn't resist that…

I have the following at the top of the page:

[[module CSS]]
table.index {border-style:none;}
td.name {vertical-align:top;text-align:left;width="33%";}
td.links {vertical-align:top;text-align:left;}
a:link {color:blue;text-decoration:none;}
a:visited {color:fuchsia;text-decoration:none;}
a:hover {color:red;text-decoration:none;}
[[/module]]

Thanks for any and all help.

---

Jack Weaver Fanac Fan History Project

Re: Advanced (custom) tables

rurwin 15 Aug 2011 22:11

Erm… This is what I get.

<table class="index">
<tr>
<td class="name"><a name="charles-tee-jackson"></a><br />
Charles Tee Jackson</td>
<td class="links">| <strong><a class="newpage" href="/lasfs">LASFS</a></strong> |</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="name"><a name="carl-jacobi"></a><br />
Carl Jacobi</td>
 
<td class="links">| <strong><a class="newpage" href="/mfs">MFS</a></strong> |</td>
</tr>
</table>

At least I do when I correct your Wikidot code, but I believe that [[table]] in the second line and the lack of a closing [[/table]] are probably typos.

Since this is posted in developer, I wrote the page using the API… and also using the Wikidot editor. Identical pages were created.

Re: Advanced (custom) tables

fanac 16 Aug 2011 12:59

Thank you, I stared at that &%#@ code 'till my eyes were bleeding and I couldn't the (now) obvious typo, it's not the first that fresh eyes have come through. The lack of a closing [[/table]] is because I didn't think that I needed to including all of the 148 entries in that particular table, I thought that the first couple of them would suffice.

Now that that dumb mistake has been corrected could you please use your fresh eyes and tell where I've shot myself in the foot again. The text in table's two columns still does not line up as I excepted it to. The table is at http://fancyclopedia.wikidot.com/index:people-a-i

---

Jack Weaver Fanac Fan History Project

Re: Advanced (custom) tables

rurwin 16 Aug 2011 14:32

Take out all the new-lines between [[cell]] and [[/cell]]. They translate to a <br> which pads the text downwards:

[[table class="index"]]
[[row]]
[[cell class="name"]][[# charles-lee-jackson]]Charles Lee Jackson[[/cell]]
[[cell class="links"]]| **[[[lasfs | LASFS]]]** |[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[cell class="name"]][[# carl-jacobi]]Carl Jacobi[[/cell]]
[[cell class="links"]]| **[[[mfs | MFS]]]** |[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Last edited on 16 Aug 2011 14:33 by rurwin Show more

Re: Advanced (custom) tables

fanac 17 Aug 2011 12:00

Thank you, you're right again. Putting the entire [[cell]] to [[/cell]] content on a single line cured the problem. The odd thing is that I was doing the same thing with the second cell in each row that that cell didn't have a break inserted into it. I wonder if the presence of an anchor in the first cell had anything to do with that?

---

Jack Weaver Fanac Fan History Project