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

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Thu Feb 12 12:53:58 UTC 2009


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.

Emacs has support for editing tables, see
<http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Text-Based-Tables.html>


   Florian
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