Thanks, Shaun,

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 18:45 -0500, Jim Campbell wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm trying to mimic the table headings that are used in the current
> > gedit help, but I'm having a hard time with it.  I can create the
> > table just fine, but can't seem to create a table heading that merges
> > cells across two columns.
> >
> > To see what I'm trying to do, complete the following steps:  : )
> >      1. Open gedit
> >      2. Press F1
> >      3. Select Shortcut Keys
>
> What you're seeing is just how Yelp formats regular table
> headings. That is, there's no real spanning. Yelp just
> doesn't draw column dividers in table headers.
>
> > Here's the code that I have in my current draft of the gedit docs:
> >
> > <table frame="all" rules="all">
> >   <tr>
> >     <td><p>Shortcut Key</p></td>  <td><p>Command</p></td>
> >   </tr>
> >   <tr>
> >     <td><p>Ctrl + Alt + PageUp</p></td>  <td><p>Switches to the next
> > tab to the left.</p></td>
> >   </tr>
>
> 1. Put the first <tr> in a <thead>.
> 2. Put the rest of the <tr>s in a <tbody>.
> 3. Remind me to implement some nice formatting on <thead>.
>

I had tried using <thead> and <tbody> as you indicated, and just didn't see
anything special come of it when I re-rendered the page in yelp.  I'll put
the <thead> and <tbody> elements back in.  It's nice to know that it is just
a yelp/xslt formatting issue.

Thanks again,

Jim
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