Hi all,
Another question on my current project...
Again, first, here's the code:
http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-tables-2.html
http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/css/browser-tables-2.css
Also look at this image for reference:
http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/FinderWindow.png
So here's the thing. That Finder list shows alternating table rows
(white/light blue) regardless of if there's any data in the row. Empty table
rows fill the window height if the window is larger than the number of rows
holding data. I want the same effect in the list part of my page.
Note that the container for the list is set to overflow, so a (vertical)
scrollbar appears if the window is too small (vertically) for all the rows with
data to appear. But any solution we come up with for displaying the "empty"
rows when the window is taller than the data needs to ensure no scroll bar
appears then.
I've thought of a couple of ways I might accomplish this.
1. put another table behind the data one, with the same settings but no data in
it. This could be a very large number of rows. Trouble is the presence or
existence of the scroll bar is defined by the overflow setting of the container
object, and since both tables (the one with data and the one with empty rows)
are in the same containing object I can't win. I'm trying to get my head
around the idea that maybe I can somehow have two container objects with
different overflow settings, but that's starting to do my head in and I'd like
to see if there are any other common/recognised methods of achieving this.
2. I could create a small jpeg that looks like two blank rows of the same table
and set it to repeat. But then if I decide to change the row height of the
table rows for the data list, then I have to put in a different image, and
that'll just get messy.
Each of these has issues, or is potentially pretty complicated, and I keep
telling myself surely there's an easy way to do this.
Logically I just think there should be some way to create a table with an
indeterminate number of rows and that just grows automatically (by increasing
the number of rows, not by increasing the height of each row) to fill the
available space, kinda like an image set to repeat does.
Has anyone ever done something like this before, and is there an easy way to do
it that I'm missing?
Thanks!
David.
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