[Pmwiki-users] Styling simple table rules

[Ciaran]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:14:21 -0700, Patrick R. Michaud
<pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I can't help showing off a bit today.
> 
> For Ciaran, tables with the first row styled differently.
> 
>    http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/FunWithTables#firstrow
> 
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:40:52PM -0500, Bronwyn Boltwood wrote:
> > I'd love to have a table colour scheme with a header and alternating
> > rows!
> 
> Oh.  How about ...?
>     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/FunWithTables#zebra
> 
> Or if two colors isn't good enough...
>     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/FunWithTables#zebra4
> 
> > (Columns too, but I don't see a good way to reliably produce
> > that.)
> 
> Why not?
>     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/FunWithTables#columned
> 
> Or if you need both rows and columns:
>     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/FunWithTables#xhatch
> 
> > Can we have a toggle to mark the first row of a simple table
> > as proper header row with <th>s, too?
> 
> Just use the ||!heading|| markup, as you later discovered, and
> demonstrated in
>     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/FunWithTables#zebra
> 
> > Can I have this in time to write styles for it into a template for v2 final?
> 
> Sure, the capability is now in beta8 (although it's not configured by
> default -- you have to set $TableCellAttrFmt and/or $TableRowAttrFmt.
> Details to come in a cookbook recipe.
> 
> > Another super-nifty trick would be to highlight a row when a user
> > clicks on it or hovers over it, like
> > http://www.alistapart.com/articles/tableruler/.
> 
> Oh, alright....
>    http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/HighlightRows
> 
> :-)
> 
> Pm
> 
Pm - As usual you've excelled yourself, even wih the columnar
attributes that Pj poo-pooed <g> Stunning stuff, I look forward to
using it shortly.  I think this is a really neat way of improving the
tabular functionality! PmWiki will surely takeover the world soon
enough <g>
Thanks!
-- 
- Ciaran