Actually, no. Wrapping a list inside a list does NOT work. In that case,
the inside list is all "joined" together as a single string. Only a tuple
inside a list works. I tried everything, only the tuple in the list worked.
On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 5:04:54 AM UTC-7, Anthony wrote:
>
> Can you show an example of where it wraps the items in a TD? I think that
> would only happen if you explicitly put items into TR's, in which case the
> TR will control what wraps its components.
>
> Also, you don't need a tuple -- can just be a list inside a list:
>
> print THEAD([['a', 'b']])
>
> <thead><tr><th>a</th><th>b</th></tr></thead>
>
>
> Anthony
>
> On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 3:32:24 AM UTC-4, Joe Barnhart wrote:
>>
>> I often use the web2py helpers to build my tables on the fly. I've
>> always thought it was strange that my THEAD() helper seemed to prefer
>> wrapping its components inside a TD element instead of a TH. I mean, why
>> not a TH? We already know its in a header.
>>
>> Playing around, I found this pattern works perfectly to wrap its members
>> in TH instead of TD:
>>
>> THEAD( [ ('head1', 'head2', etc...) ] )
>>
>> So if I create a TUPLE (not a list), wrap it in a LIST, and then hand it
>> to THEAD, it creates TH elements inside the THEAD. Every other
>> construction I've tried returns TD inside instead.
>>
>> -- Joe
>>
>
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