[pmwiki-users] Styling table cells

Peter Payzant pce at accesswave.ca
Wed Oct 30 17:08:15 CDT 2013


Ian-

Thanks for the insight! I'm OK with how to use CSS, but it was the 
application of the << and >> that I was missing. Very clever. I knew 
that there had to be a way...

Peter

On 2013-10-30 6:42 PM, Ian MacGregor wrote:
> Define a special styling for a specific table in your CSS file (note the "specialtable" class):
>
> .specialtable th {
> text-align: left;
> background-color: #eee;
> line-height: 1em;
> margin-top: 0.2em;
> margin-bottom: 0.1em;
> padding-left: 5px;
> }
>
> .specialtable td {
> similar but not identical
> }
>
> In a wiki page, use the "specialtable" class to style the table:
>
>>> specialtable<<
> (:table:)
> (:headnr:)
> blah
> (:head:)
> blah
> (:cellnr:)
> blah
> (:cell:)
> blah
> (:tableend:)
>>> <<
> This will style just the tables that use the specialtable class without styling all tables site-wide. You can change the class name "specialtable" to anything you want but the class in the CSS file and the styling in the wiki page must match.
>
> Regards,
> Rev. Ian MacGregor
> http://www.ianmacgregor.net
>
>> On Oct 30, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Peter Payzant <pce at accesswave.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Am I missing something? I'd like to apply some CSS styling to table cells. I can make it work like this:
>>
>> (:headnr align=left style="background-color:#eee;line-height:1.9em;margin-top:0.2em;margin-bottom:0.1em;padding-left:5px":)
>>
>> (:cell [similar but not identical] :)
>>
>> but repeating this for each cell is tedious and hard to maintain.
>>
>> I tried creating pub/css/local.css and defining a style there, but rewriting the above as
>>
>> (:headnr align=left class="test":)
>>
>> had no effect. PmWiki has many ways to do styling; maybe I'm missing some crucial fact.
>>
>> Thanks for any comments!
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
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