caption for data:table?

Michael van Dam — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:50:54 -0000

I've recently been playing around with the <data:table> and related tags. I'm sure I've just scratched the surface as to all the capabilities, but so far am very impressed!

One thing I wasn't able to find is a way to place a <caption> tag inside a table. Is there any way to do so that I just didn't see, or are there any plans for this in the future?

As I was looking for more info, I found a bunch of other tags I didn't know about - they seem quite useful for controlling table design but I wasn't sure how you would go about using them with data:table.

<col>, <colgroup> - for specifying column widths, alignment, span

<thead>, <tbody>, <tfoot> - for delimiting which rows are the header/footer portion of the table - apparently gives special rendering/behaviour in some browsers, though not well supported

I wonder if a really easy way to "support" these would just be to take all non-<data:>-content within the <data:table> tag and place it just inside the opening <table> tag in the compiled template?

<data:table>

<caption>Some title</caption>
<col width="10%">
<col width="80%">
<data:column name="title">
<data:header>Title</data:header>
<data:cell>{$title}</data:cell>
</data:column>
...
</data:table>

I'm not sure this helps with thead/tbody/tfoot though.

Anyways, love the tag so far - the syntax seems quite intuitive and the "autogen" feature has been a huge time-saver for me!

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Some references just in case the above mentioned tags are not familiar (as they weren't for me):

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_caption.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_col.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_colgroup.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_thead.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_tbody.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_tfoot.asp

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