Hi i dont see what is complex about this. On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Michał Sawicz <mic...@sawicz.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to pick your brainz about how would you approach constructing > and rendering a complex table with headers, row/colspanning cells in a > most clean way that rids the view of rendering as much as possible. >
The view 'rendering' as much as possible. So i assume you would rather have an initial template rendered. then perhaps have views that deliver data via JSON or something? AJAX+JSON > Here's roughly what I'm after (incomplete, but you should see what I > mean): > http://imageshack.us/f/845/zrzutekranuqv.png/ > > There are three approaches I can think of: > > 1. Construct a complete grid in the view, along with row/colspans > that I would simply iterate over and render in the template, but > that would make it virtually impossible to change the > appearance. I cant see why it would be impossible to change. Use javascript to change the table col and rowspans. (why do visual formatting work on the serverside if you can do it clientside) at the very least you can have style="display:None" and variious other CSS rules to help with any dynamic changes to the table. > 2. Count the cells / rows and compare them with data from the view > to decide on how that particular cell should behave, but that > makes the template a nightmare. I dont quite understand this one. If you are comparing data server-side then submitting data via a form would be recommended. Where is the data being changed that requires the comparison anyway? > 3. ID all the cells and change the attributes accordingly, but for > rowspanning cells I wouldn't know in the consecutive rows that > there in fact was a cell and I might want to repeat it. Maybe I > could fill in the complete grid but make the ones that get > spanned ignorable in the template through a class. > use multiple classes eg <td class="A B C"> jse a javascript library to add remove classes select child elements of the DOM im sure the information doesnt have to be partitioned down the a super fine level of granularity requiring individual id's for every element does it? What javascript library do you use? jquery, prototype, dojo etc all good options to simplify manipulation of DOM elements. > I'll take all thoughts :) > -- > Michał (Saviq) Sawicz <mic...@sawicz.net> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
