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

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:45:59AM -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> Chris G wrote:
>> > Word processors do the job moderately well but, as I discovered,
>> > they're not very good at writing the output in HTML.  If it was easy
>> > and fairly transparent to display word processor documents on a web
>> > page that would be my answer.
>>
>> Sorry just jumping in here, but since you said that about word
>> processors, you already tested openoffice's translation of HTML/ODT? I
>> didn't see what tools you've already tried and/or why they aren't
>> displaying properly or working right for display in a web browser.
>>
> Yes, I almost thought I was there using OpenOffice and its HTML
> Export, it did manage quite well but there were some oddities in its
> handling of border styles.  Since I specifically wanted good control
> over border styles I decided to have another look around.
>
> It's also a bit clumsy having to use Export all the time to save the
> file, there's no way of getting it back directly and it didn't seem
> possible to save as a Writer file as well so that was a bit of a
> problem too.
>
> However the alpha version of kompozer 0.80 seems to be doing what I
> want, I haven't managed to break it or crash it yet.  :-)

Hmm - Openoffice Calc dumps rows/columns to tables when you export to
(X)HTML.  It uses CSS also, so you might be able to tweak it by hand
if the layout options in OO are too cumbersome.  Just a thought in
case you hit a snag with Kompozer...

Chris