Hi, for FireFox have a look at the add-on TableTools https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2637 to copy web-page layouted tables in TW easiley. Have fun, Cheers Michael
On Jul 17, 2:05 pm, shavinder <[email protected]> wrote: > The table is looking tolerable, but other larger tables most certainly > do give problems to me. And you are right, the span tag does act as an > invisible table cell, especially when i use colspan attribute in a > <th> cell, the table seems to consider the span as a cell. One can see > this happening clearly with some background color in the <th>. > > I tried to find some solution by tweaking the plugin code but did not > have enough knowledge of TW insides, so I just left it and took up > asylum in the most gracious <nowiki> tag :-) > > On Jul 17, 9:32 am, "Mark S." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks shavinder. What does the table *look* like? At least on mine, > > that <span>...</span> is acting like an invisible table cell, pushing > > contents on the row out of position. Oh well, I guess that's the price > > you pay for trying to get two schemas working on the same data. Its > > not a big thing, it just surprised me a bit. > > > -- Mark > > > On Jul 16, 8:21 pm, shavinder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I tried your example code: > > > <html><table> > > > <tr> > > > <td>stuff</td> <td>more stuff</td> > > > </tr> > > > </table></html> > > > > and this is what my firebug(1.3.3(on firefox 3.0.3)) shows me as > > > rendered(without the <hide linebreaks>): > > > > <table> > > > <span><br></span> > > > <tbody> > > > <tr> > > > <span> > > > <br> > > > </span> > > > <td> > > > <span> > > > stuff > > > </span> > > > </td> > > > <span> </span> > > > <td> > > > <span> > > > more stuff > > > </span> > > > </td> > > > <span> > > > <br> > > > </span> > > > </tr> > > > <span> > > > <br> > > > </span> > > > </tbody> > > > </table> > > > > Every space character is being replaced by a <span> </span> and every > > > line break as <span> <br> </span>. > > > The plugin is not inserting an extra <td></td> around the space > > > character. It is enclosing it with a <span></span>. > > > > On Jul 16, 8:01 pm, "Mark S." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi shavinder, > > > > > I read the plugin info before posting. However, I'm not talking about > > > > linebreaks. I'm talking about single SPACE gaps: > > > > > ...</td>SPACE<td>... > > > > > Gets interpreted as > > > > > ...</td><td></td><td>... > > > > > and I am using <hide linebreaks>. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mark > > > > > On Jul 16, 6:30 am, shavinder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Its by design. Take a look at this > > > > > thread.http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/7b33d8... > > > > > > Eric has explained it quite well. > > > > > > Try reading the plugin code. I found that quite helpful to understand > > > > > what was happening behind the curtains. > > > > > You would see that <span> tags are being inserted at every space. And > > > > > wherever a linebreak is entered a <span></br></span> is introduced. > > > > > What is happening is that every linebreak is being converted into an > > > > > HTML linebreak because this is the way wiki formatting is supposed to > > > > > work. > > > > > > You could use <hide linebreaks> tag so that line breaks are not > > > > > treated as line breaks when they are rendered. But, in tables this > > > > > might be still a problem because <span></span> tag would still be > > > > > there, albeit empty! > > > > > > If you do not need to use wiki syntax at all in your tiddler you > > > > > should use <nowiki>. This is the way i am using it too > > > > > athttp://punjabi.tiddlyspot.com > > > > > > On Jul 16, 2:39 am, "Mark S." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Has anyone else seen this? > > > > > > > If I make a table under <html>, and put even a single space between > > > > > > an > > > > > > ending cell tag and a starting cell tag, the browser inserts an > > > > > > entire > > > > > > extra colum. That is, > > > > > > > <tr> > > > > > > <td>stuff</td> <td>more stuff</td> > > > > > > </tr> > > > > > > > (note the space between</td> and <td> in the middle) ends up looking > > > > > > like > > > > > > > stuff | extra-column | more stuff > > > > > > > To make the mystery column disappear, I have to format the code like > > > > > > this: > > > > > > > <td>stuff</td><td>more stuff</td> > > > > > > > or use the <nowiki> tag (which is ok for my purposes). > > > > > > > It doesn't seem to mind spaces between rows, though. I guess its > > > > > > not a > > > > > > big deal, but it did catch me by surprise. > > > > > > > -- Mark --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
