[Xerte] Re: Table formatting

[Pat L (pgogy)]

I thought there was a table page type?

If you use fancier HTML do we need a HTML5 only warning?


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Fred Riley <Fred.Riley at bcu.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Ah, sorry, I should have said XOT. My understanding, and experience, of
> XOT is that the only HTML tags you can use in text pages are: <b>, <i>,
> <u>, <font> (!), <li>, <span>. This is also what a reply to a XOT list
> thread (http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/xerte/2012-May/013689.html
>
> ) from 2 years ago states. If there's a way of adding "all sorts of html
> and css" then I'm all ears.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Fred
>
>
>
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>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Ron Mitchell
> *Sent:* 03 September 2014 19:42
> *To:* 'Xerte discussion list'
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Table formatting
>
>
>
> Are you talking about desktop Xerte rather than XOT? If XOT 2.1 and you
> don't need to maintain Flash playback then you can add all sorts of html
> and css.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Fred Riley
> *Sent:* 03 September 2014 19:26
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Table formatting
>
>
>
> I've got a strong feeling that I know the answer to this question, but I
> thought I'd ask just in case. Is there a way in Xerte of presenting
> formatted <div> or <table> elements in a page?
>
> I know that there is a Charts | Table page type, and you can specify
> alternately coloured rows. What I'm looking for is to be able to specify
> the exact RGB for a row background, eg:
>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td width="20%" style="background-color: #BFBFBF;"><b>Element</b></td>
> <td width="80%" style="background-color: #BFBFBF;"><b>Present how and
> when</b></td>
> </tr>
> <!-- various other rows -->
> </table>
>
> There is a particular reason for this, in that the colours come from a
> 'fire triangle' diagram (such as
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Fire_triangle.svg/1175px-Fire_triangle.svg.png)
> so text references to heat/fuel/oxygen need to be in consistent colours.
>
> I know that there's a limited subset of HTML tags usable in a Xerte page,
> which doesn't include <table> or <div>. I suspect that I'd need to draw the
> table in a graphics editor and import it, but a minor disadvantage of that
> is that any future edits would require access to the image source file and
> expertise in a bitmap/vector editor.
>
> Fred
> www.fredriley.org.uk
>
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