Good tools for creating tables, including CSS setup, recommendations?

[Andrew Kane]

Is this a static or dynamically-created table?

I wonder if it would be worthwhile to code it up in php or perl and,
if it's a static table, just copy & paste the output where you need
it.

Not exactly easy I suppose, but at least it could save you some typing.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 05:14:25PM -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>> > I want to be able to create tables for displaying information on web
>> > pages and I'm looking for tools to help me do this.
>>
>> here's an article that compares Screem, Bluefish and Quanta (none of
>> which you mentioned as having tried).
>>
>> http://www.linux.com/feature/130601
>>
> I did mention Bluefish, it does absolutely nothing useful with tables,
> all it can do is create a trivially simple table as a template to
> start from.  I did also look at Screem though I didn't mention it in
> my posting.
>
> None of the above programs addresses my requirements, all they do is
> make it a bit easier to format and enter raw HTML, possibly with the
> addition of adding an ending tag when you enter a starting one.  A
> (moderately) complex table with, say, twenty or thirty rows, three or
> four columns and a number of row spans and column spans will still be
> difficult to manage with any of them.
>
> The issue is that tables in particular are *much* easier to visualise,
> manage and modify *as a table* than as the complicated mess that HTML
> represents them as.  I'm looking for some sort of tool that will allow
> me to see the form of the table as I create and modify it.  It doesn't
> necessarily have to be WYSIWYG, some of the markup languages (as used
> in Wikis among other things) have reasonable ways of representing
> tables which are then translated to HTML.  For example reStructuredText
> has two ways of creating a table the simpler of which is:-
>
>    ========  ===========
>    Header A    Header B
>    ========  ===========
>    Data       Data
>    More       More Data
>    ========  ===========
>
> This will (if run through rst2html) create a neat table in HTML but
> the format doesn't allow much flexibility with row and column spans
> etc.  The more complex reStructuredText table format is more flexible
> but is hard work to edit, though still a lot easier to 'see' than raw
> HTML.  One needs to add CSS to get borders as required but I could
> live with that if I could find an elegant mark up language for
> creating tables.
>
> A WYSIWYG table creator would be even better but I'm pretty sure there
> is no such beast.
>
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