Posted by Curt Zirzow on 12/10/05 05:07

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:16:32PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
> This question is a little OT but no doubt everyone and their brother is
> generating tables here so heres my question.

well, i try to only use tables when I present tabular data, i
wonder mabey if i'm a cousin or something. And, yes, it is a bit OT.

>
> I'm a little frustrated with CSS. Sure I can define styles for TH, TD,
> and so on. But mildly sophisticated pages are buried in tables within
> tables. Specifying global styles for these tags is useless. Likewise I
> can define a class like:

The thing is, well, consider how frustrating it was to make a
complicated table of data.

I think CSS appears to be complicated cause it has to interact with
HTML in wich people tend to belive that HTML is too output: layout,
markup, and presentation.

HTML and CSS are two sperate languages. HTML/CSS is going/has been
more leaning towards the concept of XML/XSLT. Where, the html (xml)
is the data and the CSS (xslt) is how to present it. I always use
this site to show the power of css and how html is rather
unimportant for presentation but for data structure:

http://www.csszengarden.com/

>
> .t {
> font-size: small;
> border-bottom: 1px lightgrey solid;
> border-right: 1px lightgrey solid;
> }

Anyway... Change the definition to:

table.t td, table.t th {

And Add:

table.t th {
text-align: left;
}

> and add a class="t" to EVER SINGLE TH and TD tag like:
>
> echo "<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">";

Assign the class of 't' to the table.

> echo "<tr><td class=\"t\">ID</td><td class=\"t\">Username</td><td class=\"t\">Name</td><td class=\"t\">Email</td><td class=\"t\">Options</td><td class=\"t\">Date</td>";

techincally i would define these as <th>'s they are headers for the
data set.

> while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
> echo "<tr><td class=\"t\">$row[0]</td> <td class=\"t\">$row[1]</td> <td class=\"t\">$row[2]</td> <td class=\"t\">$row[5]</td> <td class=\"t\">$row[6]</td> <td class=\"t\">$row[7]</td> <tr/>";

and here you just have <td>

HTH,

Curt.
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