an old, disgusting trick is to use a pixel wide clear image and set its height 
or width to force it to minimum at least.

but that's disgusting, so I didn't suggest it, I just mentioned it! HA!



On Jan 27, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:

> I still need to calculate that value. My fear is that doing this will be 
> expansive since I will have to pre-calculate it. For example, for the A 
> column, I will have to check how many items are in the stock and the 
> transactions columns to be able to either set the rowspace attribute (for a 
> <td>) or the height (by CSS). And I will have to calculate it every time an 
> action is taken (when a new transaction is created).
> 
>> Couldn't you just use the "rowspan" attribute?
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm trying to find a way to get a design to work, and I guess I'm reaching 
>>> my Web design skills to its limits. Anyway, I have to work on a form in a 
>>> table form. The problem is that how I can expand the height of a <td> or a 
>>> <div> when I'm inside a WORepetition. See this example:
>>> 
>>> <Capture d’écran 2012-01-27 à 09.46.34.png>
>>> 
>>> My original design was using a <table>, and inside some <td>, I'm using a 
>>> <div> for each sub-row (the "A" and "B"). Problem is, alignment is not ok. 
>>> For example, for MEC-1044, A might have four transactions, but B will show 
>>> up on the same "line" as the second transaction of A. I have tried to move 
>>> to full CSS (e.g., replacing the table with divs) and I get the same 
>>> problem.
>>> 
>>> I guess when building the list of transactions for A, I could count of 
>>> number of nodes and adjust by JavaScript the height of the column for A. 
>>> For example, if the default height for A is 25px and it have four 
>>> transactions, I could change the height of the A column to 100px. But that 
>>> means that I have to check all columns to find what will be the maximum 
>>> height. For example, if A don't have any transactions yet but another 
>>> column is higher, I will have to use the height for that column.
>>> 
>>> Is this something doable, especially in a WORepetition? I never saw a 
>>> design like that on the Web, so maybe it's just not possible.
>>> 
>>> This is what the table look like on the HTML side:
>>> 
>>>  <table width="90%">
>>>    </tr>
>>>    <wo:loop list="$childsSpec" item="$childSpec">
>>>      <tr valign="top">
>>>        <td class="spec_name" width="150">
>>>          <strong><wo:str value="$childSpec.ID" /></strong>
>>>        </td>
>>>        <td class="spec_revision">
>>>            <wo:loop list="$revisions" item="$revisionItem">
>>>              <div style="height: 25px; width:100%;"> <wo:str 
>>> value="$revisionItem.ID" /> </div>
>>>            </wo:loop>
>>>        </td>
>>>          <td class="spec_stock">
>>>            <wo:loop list="$revisions" item="$revisionItem">
>>>                <wo:loop list="$~availablesPartsForSpec(revisionItem)" 
>>> item="$partItem">
>>>                  <div style="height: 25px; width:100%;"> <wo:str 
>>> value="$partItem.availableQuantity" /> </div>
>>>                </wo:loop>
>>>            </wo:loop>
>>>          </td>
>>>          <td class="spec_parts">
>>>            <wo:loop list="$revisions" item="$revisionItem">
>>>              <wo:loop list="$~availablesPartsForSpec(revisionItem)" 
>>> item="$partItem">
>>>                    <div style="height: 25px; width:100%;">
>>>                      <wo:AjaxObserveField updateContainerID="main_table" 
>>> action="$~addPartsFromLot(partItem)"> <wo:textfield value="$quantityToAdd" 
>>> size="4" numberformat="#" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /> 
>>> </wo:AjaxObserveField>
>>>                    </div>
>>>              </wo:loop>
>>>            </wo:loop>
>>>          </td>
>>>          <td class="spec_manifest">
>>>            <wo:loop list="$revisions" item="$revisionItem">
>>>              <wo:loop list="$~transactionsForSpec(revisionItem)" 
>>> item="$specTransactionItem">
>>>                <div style="height: 25px; width:100%;">
>>>                    <wo:AjaxObserveField updateContainerID="main_table" 
>>> action="$~removeQuantityFromTransaction(specTransactionItem)">
>>>                      <span style="margin-right: 10px; 
>>> width=40px;"><wo:textfield value="$specTransactionItem.quantityToRemove" 
>>> numberformat="#" size="4" /></span>
>>>                      <span style="margin-right: 10px;"><wo:str 
>>> value="[email protected]@abs(specTransactionItem.quantity)" /></span>
>>>                      <wo:str value="$specTransactionItem.dateEnd" 
>>> dateformat="%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S" />
>>>                    </wo:AjaxObserveField>
>>>                </div>
>>>              </wo:loop>
>>>            </wo:loop>
>>>          </td>
>>>        </wo:if>
>>>        <td class="spec_quantity"><wo:str 
>>> value="$~missingQuantity(childSpec)" /></td>
>>>        <td class="spec_required_qty"><wo:str 
>>> value="$~spec.requiredQuantityForChild(childSpec)" /></td>
>>>      </tr>
>>>    </wo:loop>
>>>  </table>
>>> 
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