[Xerte] Re: Table formatting

Thu Sep 4 13:13:09 BST 2014

" I thought there was a table page type?"

Er, yes, Pat - I did refer to that in my original message, but here it is again for busy skim-readers:

" 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"

This isn't an important query. If tables can't be formatted, then it's really not a big deal - Xerte is a learning object generator, not a HTML editor. I'm just after knowing...

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy)
Sent: 04 September 2014 11:32
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Table formatting

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<mailto: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

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto: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> [mailto: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<http://www.fredriley.org.uk>

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