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Posted by matt on 09/20/06 23:58
Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> why not generate the table as an Excel spreadsheet and be done with it!
something ive looked into a little bit as well. im not as familar w/
excel layout, but i do know how to work w/i the confines of html. for
instance the real-world versions have these tables have about 35 column
headers divided into 3 rows of headers. w/ so much data, the headers &
footers must print on every page. each "row" of report data is actually
3 rows (about 35 pieces of information), thus the <TBODY>s. some of the
row column need certain widths, others we do not care about and want to
stretch out (the table is 100% wide; i dont always know what size paper
it will be printed on, legal or tabloid, but want it to stretch). some
reports have a row that spans all 35 columns and has instead a nested
sub-table of related information.
getting this all to look mildly attractive in the printed form has been
a challenge. but one myself & CSS can deal with. except for this
annoying IE <TBODY>-split bug.
thanks,
matt
There
> are even Pear packages for doing this and I am sure MS as some ActiveX
> doohickey and bypass IE CSS shortcomings all together.
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
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