RE: omit table tags (was: RE: [displaytag-devel] display09/src - New directory)

[Fabrizio Giustina]

Title: RE: [displaytag-devel] display09/src - New directory

so you should also be able to not to display headers and not include a table body... or you want to display two table headers&body in the same table? speaking about table meaning in html, doing a such thing only to define the size of columns is not a good thing. If you want to control column width (presentation) you should use css. I know with css you can't make the table "flexible" and keep columns of the same size in two different tables at the same time, but at least you can define a fixed (or percentual, wich should allow you to achieve the result) size for each of the columns and apply it to both the tables. Use the "table-layout:fixed;" attribute to avoid resizing, that's all.   fabrizio   PS. Mathias, I definitively don't think adding an "omitTableTags" attributes could be a good solution... what about table header and body? you should omit those too... and what about column headers defined by <th>? changing them to <td> makes no sense, because they ARE column headers, but putting anything before them, inside the table, will make the table loose any logic...     -----Original Message----- From: Torgeir Veimo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 6/18/2003 2:47 PM To: Fabrizio Giustina Cc: Subject: RE: [displaytag-devel] display09/src - New directory On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 13:30, Fabrizio Giustina wrote: > well, I intend to add a feature wich let the user customize table > legend and footer... > but I don't think to give the user the ability to customize body and > headers, since these are directly mapped to the data being displayed: > the scope for tables in html is to display tabular data, not to > control presentation. >  > Can you provide a sample of the result you would like to obtain? If it > makes sense and there is no way to do it using css I'll try to add > this feature, ok? The very specific thing we used it for was to have two lists in the same table so that the columns would line up exactly. -- Torgeir Veimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>