Actually, no. Wrapping a list inside a list does NOT work. In that case, the inside list is all "joined" together as a single string. Only a tuple inside a list works. I tried everything, only the tuple in the list worked.
On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 5:04:54 AM UTC-7, Anthony wrote: > > Can you show an example of where it wraps the items in a TD? I think that > would only happen if you explicitly put items into TR's, in which case the > TR will control what wraps its components. > > Also, you don't need a tuple -- can just be a list inside a list: > > print THEAD([['a', 'b']]) > > <thead><tr><th>a</th><th>b</th></tr></thead> > > > Anthony > > On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 3:32:24 AM UTC-4, Joe Barnhart wrote: >> >> I often use the web2py helpers to build my tables on the fly. I've >> always thought it was strange that my THEAD() helper seemed to prefer >> wrapping its components inside a TD element instead of a TH. I mean, why >> not a TH? We already know its in a header. >> >> Playing around, I found this pattern works perfectly to wrap its members >> in TH instead of TD: >> >> THEAD( [ ('head1', 'head2', etc...) ] ) >> >> So if I create a TUPLE (not a list), wrap it in a LIST, and then hand it >> to THEAD, it creates TH elements inside the THEAD. Every other >> construction I've tried returns TD inside instead. >> >> -- Joe >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.