Re: regarding table-row styling (feature request)

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Rafał Pietrak <rafal@ztk-rp.eu> wrote:
> Hello the list,
>
> Currently I'm working on styling my pages towards responsive presentation on
> moblie (small width) devices. But I'm stuck with styling the tables.
>
> I did some background checking, and found historical examples of styling
> tables, which would be quite suitable for such responsive cases.
>
> Those examples from the past are:
> 1. there is mendeleyev periodic table of elements. As a "table", it's
> content fit into a spreadsheet one row per element; getting columns like:
> name of element, atomic weight, electron configuratnion, a "two-letter"
> symbol, density at notmal preasure/temperature, etc, etc.
>
> 1.1 but we normally present that "table" in quite a different way: each
> "row" of such table is painted onto a single tile: one tile per table row
> (of a particular element features). We then arrange those tiles into yet
> another table, ... but thet's not my point here, so let's forget it for now.
>
> 2. another example is library catalog index card. Such index card contain a
> "one row of data" regarding a particular publication. And again, if such
> catalog was kept in a spreadsheet, one row would contain information that
> publication. Still, that information was printed on one face of an index
> card in a "tile" fashion, so that all the information from a single "row of
> data" is arranged in 2D on such card, and information from any particular
> column is positioned at certain (x,y) on that it.
>
> It looks to me, that the arrangement of table row information onto a surface
> of a "tile in a deck" is just "styling a table". As such, it should be
> possible in CSS. I think it is desirable.
>
> If I was to sugest syntax; I'd opt for "table-level" atribute, as this
> should change the styling of the entire table (or at least thead/tfoot/tbody
> parts). So "display: [table-tiled | table-rows]" at the "<colgroup>" token,
> look most apropriate to me. Naturaly, this is only switching the mode of
> display, not syntax to design a tile - the later is not clear to me, yet.
>
> Does it look reasonable?

You can do this today, by just changing the 'display' value of table
rows to whatever you need, and committing additional tweaks as
necessary.  Is there anything missing?

~TJ

Received on Friday, 20 June 2014 23:39:49 UTC