Creating tables with internal borders with RedCloth

Ruby
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I’m having a problem using RedCloth. I know this question is more suited
for a
RedCloth mailing list, but the only one I found (the one on the RedCloth
page
on rubyforge) is for people who wants to contribute to it, not for those
asking for help. If someone knows of another mailing list, please let me
know.

My problem is quite simple: I want to use RedCloth and Textile to create
a
table with borders around the it and between all cells, as the one
produced by
specifying the rules=“all” attribute to the html table tag:

...

I can’t find out how to obtain this. The standard Textile syntax for
tables
produce a borderless table, while specifying the border style for the
whole
table, as shown in the Textile reference (Textile Reference)
only puts
the border around the whole table.

I know I can insert the table using html, but before doing so, I’d like
to be
sure there isn’t a better alternative.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Stefano

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Stefano C. wrote:

…
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Stefano

You want a border around every cell? If so, try something like this.

table(mytable).
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Then your CSS could look something like this:

table.mytable td {
border: 1px solid black;
}

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On Monday 30 June 2008, Michael M. wrote:

to be sure there isn’t a better alternative.

|10|20|30|40|

Then your CSS could look something like this:

table.mytable td {
border: 1px solid black;
}

Thanks for your answer, but this is not what I need. It seems I wasn’t
very
clear in explaining my problem. I need a table with a grid separating
rows and
columns, something like this:

||||
||||
|||_|

What you suggested puts a border around each cell, but a border which is
separated from the border around the neighbour cells (re-reading my
original
post, I must admit that I seemed to be asking for this. I apologize for
having
been so confusing.)

Stefano

4

What you suggested puts a border around each cell, but a border which is
separated from the border around the neighbour cells (re-reading my original
post, I must admit that I seemed to be asking for this. I apologize for having
been so confusing.)

Just add this to your CSS (change table.mytable as needed)

table.mytable {
    border-collapse:collapse;
}

Regards,
Rimantas

5

Stefano C. wrote:

produced by specifying the rules=“all” attribute to the html table tag:
I know I can insert the table using html, but before doing so, I’d like

columns, something like this:
Stefano

The same can be used with some minor tweaks. Play with the padding and
spacing of the td tags as well as which edges the borders go on.

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On Monday 30 June 2008, Rimantas L. wrote:

Regards,
Rimantas

http://rimantas.com/

Thanks, but this only puts a border around the whole table (unless I
misunderstand you). What I’d like is to obtain the following html output
from
RedCloth:

a b c
d e f

I’m not an expert of html, but I think the key is the rules=“all”
attribute,
which I can’t set from RedCloth (at least as far as I know) and which
can’t be
set using CSS.

Stefano

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On Monday 30 June 2008, Hassan S. wrote:

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Stefano C. [email protected]
wrote:

What you suggested puts a border around each cell, but a border which is
separated from the border around the neighbour cells

If you’re going to do web work, you need to learn CSS. In this case,
reading http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html, particularly
section 17.6 Borders, should help.

FWIW,

I read that document before sending the first post, but not well enough,
it
seems. Having seen the expression “separated borders model”, and the
figure
which goes with it, I too quickly assumed it wasn’t what I was looking
for (I
wanted united borders, not separated ones). At any rate, reading some of
the
previous answers, I looked back at it and, before my last post, decided
to try
changing the border-spacing attribute, but by mistake changed it in the
td
element instead of the table, and so it didn’t work.

At any rate, setting the border-spacing attribute to 0 for the table
solved
the problem.

Thanks

Stefano

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Stefano C.
[email protected] wrote:

What you suggested puts a border around each cell, but a border which is
separated from the border around the neighbour cells

If you’re going to do web work, you need to learn CSS. In this case,
reading http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html, particularly
section 17.6 Borders, should help.

FWIW,