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

[Chris G]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:34:40PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:53:58PM +0100, Florian Diesch wrote:
> > 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>
> > 
> That might be the only answer, the EMACS table support actually works
> rather well with reStructuredText.  The example table shown in the
> above link is exactly what reStructuredText expects as it's more

Oops, "its".

> complete table syntax.
> 
> However I *think* I have found an alternative that works for me,
> there's an alpha version of Kompozer available which has fixed the
> crashing inherent in version 0.7.10 (due to an incompatibility with
> GTK 2.14), if anyone is interested it's here:-
> 
>     http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kompozer/kompozer-20090206.tar.gz
> 
> You just unpack it and run it so it doesn't mess up anything up too much.
> 
> I'm running it at present and, while it has a few oddities, it doesn't
> crash and it edits tables quite nicely.  It has a built in CSS editor
> so makes it fairly easy to set the borders as I want them.
> 
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