I need to create a table (or something that is rendered like a table; it's meant to be printed and I don't care what it is semantically) where the text flows automatically from one row to the next within the same column. Also, the columns need to have a pre-determined width, and there must be a pre-determined number of rows (with extra empty rows if needed).
Example:
The reason behind this, in case you're wondering, is that it's meant to emulate text that's hand-written into a printed form that looks like the table above, only empty.
How would you do this?
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I'm trying to create Table Rows in a Table that can expand by clicking on them (individually).
For example, if I would click on the specified area in the picture below, a Segment/Container (some sort of area) would drop down with content inside.
I've tried a solution that is mentioned in this thread, but the underlying problem is that every element under a Table Row/Cell is subject to the rules and boundaries of the Table HeaderCell. So if I for example try to create a Table Row with a Segment under it, the result will look like this:
As you can see the Segment is inside the new Row but is limited to the size of the HeaderCell.
When doing this I also get this error:
validateDOMNesting(...): <div> cannot appear as a child of <tr>.
in div (created by Segment)
It seems that Segment under Table Row is therefore a prohibited element structure.
Any idea on how the element structure should look to create some kind of area under a Table Row?
The the warning of a <div> not being allowed as a child of a table row is telling you that it is not valid HTML. That is true whether you are using Semantic UI React or plain HTML.
I'd recommend rendering another row below the row you have in your table already. Set a column inside of that row which spans all of the columns. Now you have a container which you can put other UI inside if you want to. You can customize the style of the wide cell if you need to for some reason.
Then you can set a toggle state on the clickable area of your table. You'll probably want to put the click events on the contents of the cells and not the cells themselves.
I threw together a quick Codepen showing how this would work. This gives you a working concept that you can modify based on your use case.
https://codesandbox.io/s/serene-water-ikco9?file=/example.js
I've used alternate table row shading before (using the ::nth-child selector), but I noticed it can't get the job done when you have irregular table structure. I've come across one specific case for which I'd like to come up with a solution.
In the picture below, you can see that the rows are styled with ::nth-child(even) to give every other row a background color:
The problem here is that in some cases, the first column cell spans two rows, causing the rest of the cells in that "row" (which is really two rows) to appear disjointed or misaligned. The cells in the rows spanned by "Cole" should have the same background color as the first column's cell, because the following columns are all related to the first one. Is this achievable using strictly CSS?
I would just change the structure of the table, but the people entering this content are using a CMS with a built-in text editor, and they have no control over the format. I'd have to manually change every table on their site, which would be a huge undertaking (and it wouldn't account for future tables).
I work with ssrs with a dynamic row data in matrix/tablix. There is possibility when I have more than one page (say it two pages) where the data just fill half of the second page and leave a blank space below (half page blank space on the second page). How is the way to fill this blank space with empty rows? (whether rendering empty rows in the tablix, or inserting background image, or anything. I don't have any solution yet as it is dynamic data with many possibilities of the blank space size on the page)
Unfortunately there aren't any settings in the reporter that support this behavior. There are however several workarounds you could use to get the wanted result.
[1]
You could determine the amount of rows that fit on the first page and on the second page, just in case you have items above the
table on the first page. Before you send the datasource to the
reporter count the total rows and check if it exceeds the first page.
Then calculate the number of rows missing to fill an entire second
page (or third/fourth... if you ever get more data). Finally you add
empty rows/objects at the end of your datasource, which will of cource
cause the pages to be filled to the end.
As was pointed out before, this solution is only possible when working
with fixed row heights. If certain columns can have multi-line cells
then these could be checked as well and taken in account when
calculating the number of rows being displayed on the page. This makes
it slightly more complicated but is still a valid solution if you can
predict which columns might be troublesome.
[2]
A second solution would be to hide the table borders and place the table inside a rectangle that spans the maximum size of the
page. The borders of this rectangle can be used to display the table
outer borders and columns can be displayed by adding lines inside the
rectangle. This will cause the columns to fill the last page of the
report automatically. Unfortunately this isn't a solution to display
horizontal grid lines.
[3]
A third approach is adding an extra table directly below your table
with the same size of columns. Using the same method as from the first
solution you could fill the second table to represent the empty rows.
You'll probably have the same issue as with the first solution when
dealing with multi-line rows though.
I believe solution [1] and [3] will offer the most exact solution, if you're willing to do the math. If you don't want any horizontal lines then I suggest using approach [2].
Using an image to overlay the borders is of course another option but then you'll have the same issues when dealing with the multi-line rows. If you plan on working with fixed row heights, where you leave space for multi-line cells then this is becomes a valid approach but so does solutions [1] and [3].
Update:
If you only need the filled pages for printing you could make sure you add enough empty rows to fill at least the entire last page, these may go to a new page (1 new page, not 2... you can use a simple calculated guess for this) and exclude the last page when printing.
Here I have a manually created table using textboxes inside of a list object:
The problem with this is that if one of the textboxes has too much text only it will grow while the others will remain the same height.
Now the other issue is you can't merge two cells in the same column (vertical merge). Is there a way using a combination of controls that I could replicate what is in the picture such that if the Release Description textbox has too much text in it and it grows the other controls will grow along with it?
Two suggestions:
1) If you want to keep your current workaround, and wish to avoid the growing of your textboxes you can set the CanGrow property to False.
A UI solution for the long text will be using ToolTip: Lets say that your textbox can contain only 60 chars, in the textbox expression use the following:
=iif(Len(Fields!YourField.Value)>60, Left(Fields!YourField.Value,57) + "...",Fields!YourField.Value)
means that only 57 charecters will be displayed in the text box, the full text should be display will hovering the textbox (using tooltip).
2) If you want to merge cells vertically you can do some workarounds.
You can place a table inside another table's cell, that way using several tables you can perform your desired output.
Attaching sample of using table within another table (I use 3 tables):
I've got a bit of a challenge with an HTML table that we need to have raised columns. If you look at the attached image you'll see what I mean.
The purpose of these raised columns is to draw the user's attention to them.
The problem is:
To get the effect of the column raising above the other columns you
need some kind of element/height/margin to appear outside the
boundary of the table, which doesn't seem to work
Same goes for the bottom
To have the drop shadow appear correctly, it needs to be applied to all the cells in a column.
We did get this to work by splitting it up into multiple tables then applying the styles to the table that should be the raised column. The image I've attached is actually a live table working like this.
But, you loose all other needed features of tables...
Row heights don't match if the text wraps in table 1 but not in
table 2.
To deal with the row height issue we applied a fixed height to each table's rows, but then you have to force text to not wrap. If you then get text that's longer than the width you run into trouble.
Does anyone know how this can be achieved without splitting the tables?
Thanks,
jacques
Try having an extra row for the table above the header row (you may have to stop using any th tags) to give you the overbar at the top. Similarly for the bottom, an extra highlighting row.
Although you have to compromise the table a little to do that, it is better in my book than separating into 2 tables, as that defeats all the purposes of the table tag; to show a table, and have that table easily declared.
The effects inside the table are probably best done with jquery, unless the choice of highlighted columns is entirely static, in which case consider rendering a static html version by generating the html appropriately.