Two columns in a table - html

I'm trying to figure out how it is possible to construct a table with two columns (left and right) so that when left column' content ends the right column takes over it (see example).
I'm sure there's a way to do it without floats but correct me if I'm wrong.

Use colspan like this:
<table>
<tr>
<td>a1</td>
<td>b1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>a2</td>
<td>b2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">ab3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">ab4</td>
</tr>
</table>

Related

Can you make 2 cell 1 on the other within one tr tag?

What I want is something like this:
<table>
<tr>
<td>a1</td>
<td>a2</td>
<td>a3</td>
<td>a4</td>
</tr>
</table>
which creates a table like this:
but what I want is something like this:
I know I can easily make it with adding a new row and using rowspan to fix it, but if there is another way to do it without adding another row, it will be so great
You can implement that using rowspan.
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">a1</td>
<td>a2</td>
<td rowspan="2">a4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>a3</td>
</tr>
</table>
the answer I got after so many searches was this 2 without adding another Row:
adding both a2 a3 to another cell.
using grid system instead of table.
and there are other ways and the easiest ways is by adding another row, the code looks like this:
<table>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">a1</td>
<td>a2</td>
<td rowspan="2">a4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>a3</td>
</tr>
</table>

Split an html row into multiple (sub) rows

How can I split a row in a html table into multiple (sub) rows? (I don't mean to use rowspan to span multiple rows because I am using a rails gem called sync that is constrained to updating a single table row at a time).
For example, how can I create a single row in a table, that:
in column one, has a single row
in column two, is split into 2 sub rows
in column three, is split into 4 sub rows (row one from the previous column is split into 2 sub rows, and row 2 from the previous column is split into 2 sub rows).
This is just an example. I need to be able to dynamically decide the way the rows will be split at run time.
Edit: see below for structure as described in bullet points above (although note i'm trying to achieve this structure within a single table row, i.e. without using rowspan)
<table>
<tr>
<td rowspan=4>1</td>
<td rowspan=2>2</td>
<td >3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td >4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan=2>2</td>
<td >5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td >6</td>
</tr>
http://jsfiddle.net/40ukzvz1/
You could try nesting tables so that each table structure is not affected by the cell it sits in.
See code example:
<table width="100%" border bgcolor="red">
<tr>
<td>a</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>c</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table width="100%" border bgcolor="green">
<tr>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table width="100%" border bgcolor="blue">
<tr>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table width="100%" border bgcolor="yellow">
<tr>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>a</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>c</td>
</tr>
</table>

Line up the columns of nested table to parent

So I have a table like so,
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="6">My 6 headers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="6">My 6 inputs</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Indent 3 columns</td>
<td colspan="3">
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>repeating column 1</td>
<td>repeating column 2</td>
<td>repeating column 3</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
My issue is that, <td>repeating column 1</td> lines up with <td>My 4th input</td> column, but <td>repeating column 2</td> starts immediately after <td>repeating column 1</td> isntead of lining up with <td>My 5th input</td>. How can I align them?
jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/pL89ykLp/
It isn't possible with nested tables unless you set the width to something fixed, and make pixel perfect corrections. This approach is highly unmaintainable.
Instead, don't use tables for layout, and use some proper semantic markup. What kind of semantic markup? That's hard to know without knowing the context of your application.
There's no need for the a nested table in the last tag. Change the second row to this:
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Indent 3 columns</td>
<td>column 1</td>
<td>repeating column 2 </td>
<td>repeating column 3</td>
</tr>
Fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/9ywaqf1L/

strucure of component inside table html

I want to make a table of orders, for each row there's an arrow that show a bill details related to each order and hide when I click again on the button.
How can I make the structure of the table?
I make like this
<table id="customerTable">
<thead>
<tr>
<td>customer name </td>
<td>order date</td>
<td>sale point</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tr>
<td>customer name </td>
<td>order date</td>
<td>sale point</td>
<td>total</td>
<td>show details</td>
</tr>
//also loop here as the number of bills
<tr>
<td>bill order/td>
<td>product</td>
<td>price</td>
</tr>
I don't think like this structure is correct, and making div inside a table doesn't work, any suggestion please?
Possible structure:
<table id="customerTable">
<thead>
<tr>
<td>customer name </td>
<td>order date</td>
<td>sale point</td>
<td>total</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="master">
<td>customer name </td>
<td>order date</td>
<td>sale point</td>
<td>total</td>
<td>
show details
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="detail">
<td colspan=5>
<!-- new <table> with your details of this row -->
</td>
</tr>
<!-- ... more rows ... --->
</tbody>
</table>
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/J7szf/
Example 2: http://jsfiddle.net/J7szf/1/
You can probably use a popup near the "Show Details" Link
Example : http://jsfiddle.net/vdcUA/93/
If you want the content to be displayed in the table itself , provide here some idea on how u want the content displayed
In your example, you have an extra unneeded <tr> before your loop. You should have a standard table structure but hide / show the details depending on a click.
You'd better use:
styling with css and classes the standard row and the details
using js to hide / show rows
Actually, you could use jquery plugins to do this kind of stuff. See this example of datatables grouping rows
Jqgrid can also make some row grouping
[EDIT] The easiest way to define your HTML structure is to get inspired from the HTML in these jquery plugin examples

HTML Table issue

I have a HTML table issue that I'd like to understand better.
Let's assume that I have a 3 row HTML
<table>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">A1</td>
<td>A2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">B1</td>
<td>B2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">A very loooooooong string here</td>
</tr>
</table>
With a very long text, the contents in the first 2 rows appear like they are nearly centered. However, if I move the whole "A very long string" <td> into a separate <table> inside the row, I see that the other content doesn't center. Why is the display different when the <td> content is inside another table?
If your question ends up with 2 tables, with the original like this:
<table>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">A1</td>
<td>A2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">B1</td>
<td>B2</td>
</tr>
</table>
And the looooong text into its own:
<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">A very loooooooong string here</td>
</tr>
</table>
Then the reason why the first two lines of the first table no longer look like they're centred is because they're not - ONLY if you're comparing relative to the second table.
If you debug with border="1" in your TABLE attributes, you will see that the table that they are contained in collapses to the widest possible table data cell. Because of this, they don't look like they're centred, even though they still are.
Add some arbitrary width to the first table and you will see that they are still centred.
Can you please provide your second example? When I created the following, it still looked the same. There's a chance you didn't properly embed the table within a table cell with a colspan of 2.
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">A1</td>
<td>A2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">B1</td>
<td>B2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<table border="1"><tr>
<td>A very loooooooong string here</td>
</tr></table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
When explaining an issue with HTML, it is best to indicate which browsers were used to test...
Anyway, I did a quick test with FF3 and IE6, and I don't see the behavior you describe: with nested table, the long string has slightly more padding but the other content is still visually centered.
You should show your other code. Mine is:
<table>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">A1</td>
<td>A2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">B1</td>
<td>B2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><table><tr><td>A very loooooooong string here</td></tr></table></td>
</tr>
</table>
I think I know what you mean, is the second part of your question based on:
<table>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">A1</td>
<td>A2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">B1</td>
<td>B2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<table><td colspan="2">A very loooooooong string here</td></table>
</tr>
</table>
then I guess the reason the table contents are rendered left-aligned is that the inner table tags are hiding the colspan from the outer table.
The answer is to stop using html to style your table and to use CSS instead!