Sent by Jukka K. Korpela on 7 December 2004 18:06
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Glenn E. Lanier, II wrote:
> I am stuck with a 600px width of the entire table,
Why? If this is what a customer wants, have you explained that this will
effectively ruin most users' attempts to print the page, for example?
(And prevent users from seeing the table well even on a very wide screen,
or seeing it at all in a narrow window.)
> I thought we might be able to create everything in single row (TR) (with a
> border or shading), then visually drop about half the information into a second
> "row" on screen. If I'm completely off target, please advise.
If you simply remove _all_ width attributes and change the all-uppercase
text to mixed case (using text-transform: lowercase in CSS first, to see
the effect), and reduce the font size*) a little, then the table
reasonably fits on screen and on paper.The contents of some cells might
get wrapped into two lines, but this is probably the most tolerable
rendering.
*) I'm thinking of something like td { font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 75%; }. Reducing font size has drawbacks and risks, but here it
might be the least of evils.
> <style media="screen" type="text/css">
Why the media attribute? The rendering is surely important in print media
too, especially since without any styling you won't even get any borders.
--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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