On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:23:41PM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi,
2009/1/20 Chris G cl@isbd.net:
I just want plain borders, that's all. My problem seems to be Firefox being too clever.
Have you seen: http://www.somacon.com/p141.php
I'd actually just got there via some Googling.
Something there about table border-collapse being set to collapse, creates 1 px borders that have no 3D effect what so ever. (play about with the buttons and look at the supplied test table just above the CSS and HTML source code.)
Is that what you want? I guess you'd have to use CSS for that, but there may be a pure HTML equivalent.
Yes, by applying my own CSS I can get what I want. It seems a pity that there's no simple way to stop Firefox being clever though.
The trouble is that I'm using OpenOffice to create the table and it writes the CSS stylesheet. I can only change the CSS "after the event" as it were by directly editing the HTML. That rather removes the point of using OpenOffice in teh first place.
All I'm after is a simple way of creating tables, OpenOffice is the best tool I've found so far. Kompozer/nvu might have been a (better) candidate by=ut the current version crashes consistently (a known issue apparently).
If anyone else has any suggestions for quick ways of generating tables like the one in my example then I'd be very pleased to hear about them.
Writing raw HTML is not an option as far as I'm concerned, it's OK for some things but for tables where I'm likely to want to add columns, merge and split cells, etc. it's not a sensible way to do it.