Table COLSPAN & ROWSPAN

[plugwalsh]

Hi

I need to generate an HTML table that looks like the following:
(Two cells, A & B)

-------------------
| | |
| | B |
| | |
| |--------|
| A |
| |
| |
-------------------

In other words, can I use the rowspan & colspan together to get a cell
to flow around another cell? I need text in cell A to wrap around cell
B. It HAS to be done like this, not in a separate, right-aligned table
for B. Needs to be in a single table.

I thought:
<TABLE border=1px>
<TR><TD ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=2> A </TD><TD> B </TD></TR>
<TR></TR>
</TABLE>

(but obviously not!)

Anyone know how?

Thanks

[Els]

pl*******@yahoo.com wrote:

I need to generate an HTML table that looks like the following:
You're sure you don't need to generate HTML to look like the following
but not necessarily a table?
(Two cells, A & B)

-------------------
| | |
| | B |
| | |
| |--------|
| A |
| |
| |
-------------------

In other words, can I use the rowspan & colspan together to get a cell
to flow around another cell?
Nope, not that I know of.
I need text in cell A to wrap around cell B.
No you don't. You need (want) text in cell A to wrap around whatever B
is. (hint: not a cell)
It HAS to be done like this,
I'll take that last line with a large grain of salt, because if that
were true, you didn't need to ask anything.
not in a separate, right-aligned table
for B. Needs to be in a single table.
Let me guess. You have a clever teacher who is testing you?
I thought:
<TABLE border=1px>
<TR><TD ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=2> A </TD><TD> B </TD></TR>
<TR></TR>
</TABLE>

(but obviously not!)
You're right.
Anyone know how?

Yes.
Abandone the flowing around a cell idea, and go for a floated div (B)
inside a table cell (A). That is, if you have a compelling reason to
use tables at all, but that's your eh.. business :-)

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[plugwalsh]

Jeez. Another ijit that thinks he/she is so smart & funny.

It's for an HTML newsletter and I've tried a lot of floating div
options & right aligned tables, but in the most popular mail clients
(yahoo, hotmail, outlook) it doesn't come out right because they alter
the html of such divs etc. and have quirky ways of displaying it.

It would be ideal if I could use a simple table, but then I need one
cell to flow around the other.

[Els]

pl*******@yahoo.com wrote:

Jeez. Another ijit that thinks he/she is so smart & funny.
There's loads of us here.
There's also loads of Google Groups users who don't seem to realise
that a lot of knowledgeable people are filtering out any posts by
Google Groups users, because those Google Group users have a habit of
not quoting what they are replying to.

Hint:
http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/
It's for an HTML newsletter and I've tried a lot of floating div
options & right aligned tables, but in the most popular mail clients
(yahoo, hotmail, outlook) it doesn't come out right because they alter
the html of such divs etc. and have quirky ways of displaying it.
Doubt it's as quirky as trying to do this:
It would be ideal if I could use a simple table, but then I need one
cell to flow around the other.

I did mention (iirc) in my ijit funny/smart reply that that isn't
possible.

--
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Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -

[TomB]

Els wrote:

There's loads of us here.
There's also loads of Google Groups users who don't seem to realise
that a lot of knowledgeable people are filtering out any posts by
Google Groups users, because those Google Group users have a habit of
not quoting what they are replying to.

That, dear Els, is Google's fault. It *is* possible to reply with quoted
text on GG, but how is not obvious at all.

[Els]

TomB wrote:

Els wrote:

There's loads of us here.
There's also loads of Google Groups users who don't seem to realise
that a lot of knowledgeable people are filtering out any posts by
Google Groups users, because those Google Group users have a habit of
not quoting what they are replying to.

That, dear Els, is Google's fault. It *is* possible to reply with quoted
text on GG, but how is not obvious at all.

I agree only partly.
Yes, it's Google who hides the correct method, and even advertises the
no-quote version as a quicker method. But it's the poster's
responsibility to quote. Even a copy paste would work.

--
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Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -

[Barbara de Zoete]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:28:47 +0200, TomB <dr******@dusk-metal.kicks-ass.org>
wrote:

Els wrote:

There's also loads of Google Groups users who don't seem to realise
that a lot of knowledgeable people are filtering out any posts by
Google Groups users, because those Google Group users have a habit of
not quoting what they are replying to.

That, dear Els, is Google's fault.

Not really. If the Google Groups user first uses Google to try and find an
answer on his/her question (usually there will be an answer), or at least to see
what the group is actually about and how people interact by browsing through
some recent messages a few days back, that GG user is bound to also find a
recent post that refers to
<URL:ttp://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/>. At least they'll find a
charter and a FAQ as they are weekly posted.

To me if a fresh participant in this group behaves in a deviant way, it is as if
a new customer comes in to a bar, walks to the far left corner, drops his pants
and starts to pee, facing the back wall. 'Well,' the reply is if asked what the
beep he's doing 'this is where the toilet is in the bar I frequent, so bugger if
it isn't here in this one, but that's not my problem.'
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[Eric Kenneth Bustad]

In article <11*********************@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
<pl*******@yahoo.com> wrote:

Jeez. Another ijit that thinks he/she is so smart & funny.

It's for an HTML newsletter and I've tried a lot of floating div
options & right aligned tables, but in the most popular mail clients
(yahoo, hotmail, outlook) it doesn't come out right because they alter
the html of such divs etc. and have quirky ways of displaying it.

Well, why didn't you ask us how to do *that*, rather than how to
do it some specific way that, in the end, is impossible.

--
= Eric Bustad, Norwegian bachelor programmer

[David Ross]

pl*******@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi

I need to generate an HTML table that looks like the following:
(Two cells, A & B)

-------------------
| | |
| | B |
| | |
| |--------|
| A |
| |
| |
-------------------

In other words, can I use the rowspan & colspan together to get a cell
to flow around another cell? I need text in cell A to wrap around cell
B. It HAS to be done like this, not in a separate, right-aligned table
for B. Needs to be in a single table.

I thought:
<TABLE border=1px>
<TR><TD ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=2> A </TD><TD> B </TD></TR>
<TR></TR>
</TABLE>

(but obviously not!)

Anyone know how?

Thanks

To use newspaper and magazine terminology, this looks like main
text (A) wrapping around a sidebar (B). I do this all the time
with style-sheets. See my
<URL:http://www.rossde.com/UPS_sucks/index.html>; scroll down to
the fourth white box. Note that the outlines around the boxes and
the white backgrounds are part of the style. You can do this
without the outlines and with the same background color as the main
text.

--

David E. Ross
<URL:http://www.rossde.com/>

I use Mozilla as my Web browser because I want a browser that
complies with Web standards. See <URL:http://www.mozilla.org/>.

[TomB]

Barbara de Zoete wrote:

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:28:47 +0200, TomB
<dr******@dusk-metal.kicks-ass.org> wrote:

Els wrote:

There's also loads of Google Groups users who don't seem to realise
that a lot of knowledgeable people are filtering out any posts by
Google Groups users, because those Google Group users have a habit of
not quoting what they are replying to.

That, dear Els, is Google's fault.

Not really. If the Google Groups user first uses Google to try and find
an answer on his/her question (usually there will be an answer), or at
least to see what the group is actually about and how people interact
by browsing through some recent messages a few days back, that GG user
is bound to also find a recent post that refers to
<URL:ttp://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/>. At least they'll
find a charter and a FAQ as they are weekly posted.

To me if a fresh participant in this group behaves in a deviant way, it
is as if a new customer comes in to a bar, walks to the far left
corner, drops his pants and starts to pee, facing the back wall.
'Well,' the reply is if asked what the beep he's doing 'this is where
the toilet is in the bar I frequent, so bugger if it isn't here in this
one, but that's not my problem.'

:D You got a point there. But still I think that Google Groups could be
designed better...

[Els]

TomB wrote:

[Google Groups reply system]

:D You got a point there. But still I think that Google Groups could be
designed better...

I don't think anyone disagrees with that :-)
Can't even imagine GG themselves would disagree once they investigated
it, actually...

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Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -

[Miguel Cruz]

<pl*******@yahoo.com> wrote:

I need to generate an HTML table that looks like the following:
(Two cells, A & B)

-------------------
| | |
| | B |
| | |
| |--------|
| A |
| |
| |
-------------------

In other words, can I use the rowspan & colspan together to get a cell
to flow around another cell? I need text in cell A to wrap around cell
B. It HAS to be done like this, not in a separate, right-aligned table
for B. Needs to be in a single table.

You can't do that. Other than the floating div, which others have already
suggested, your only table-based option is this:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<p>
<table align='right'><tr><td>B B B</tr></td></table>
A A A </p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

miguel
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[Miguel Cruz]

Miguel Cruz <mn*@admin.u.nu> wrote:

<table align='right'><tr><td>B B B</tr></td></table>

Sorry, switch the </tr> and </td>, of course.

miguel
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