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

[Alex Katebi]

Hi Chris,
    It seems that you want a tool that does your programming for you. I have
not seen such a tool yet. If you find it let me know because I want to run
it at my work to do my job :).

Take a look at SQLite, it might be what you are looking for.

Thanks,
-Alex


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:48 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.  Most HTML I
> either write directly with a text editor or is generated from
> reStructuredText but either of these gets very laborious for tables.
>
> What I need to be able to do is:-
>
>    Create and modify tables, add and delete rows and columns easily.
>
>    Change the borders for the whole table consistently and easily,
>    specifically I want completely plain (no shadowing) borders in a
>    pale colour so they they are not too distracting.
>
>    Make row spans and column spans easily.
>
>    Enter text into the cells.
>
> I can't find anything that even appears capable of doing the above,
> let alone make it easy.  The things I have tried are:-
>
>    OpenOffice - a near miss but to save good HTML from Open Office
>    you have to Export rather than just save and even then the
>    handling of table/cell borders is still somewhat lacking.
>
>    SeaMonkey - It's nice and easy and does most things but it has no
>    table/cell border manipulation, it presumably leaves it to CSS so
>    one would have to do that by hand.  I want a tool that does the
>    CSS as well.
>
>    Bluefish - doesn't seem to offer *any* help with tables at all
>    apart from generating an incredibly basic table.
>
>    Kompozer - crashes consistently, it's a known bug, maybe the next
>    update will be better.
>
> ... and that's about it.
>
> Has anyone any better ideas?  I'm willing to go for a mark-up language
> that's good at tables (reStructuredText isn't particularly good) and
> do the CSS myself though a WYSIWYG editor would be my ideal as tables
> really need WYSIWYG.
>
> Is there really no easy way to do this except DIY?
>
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