Well, the code I pasted definitely works -- copied the code and output
directly from the shell (also tried in an app). Can you show your code
where a tuple worked but a list did not? Also, please show the code that
wraps the cells in TD's instead of TH's.
Anthony
On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 7:16:18 PM UTC-4, Joe Barnhart wrote:
>
> 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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