Arithmetic Sum in HTML table

[gkdog]

Does anyone know how to display a table in HTML where the bottom line sums (arithmetic) all the rows above it ?

GD

 

[NigeW]

I would assume you would need to incorporate some sort of scripting for this, e.g. JavaScript

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

gkdog,

HTML won't allow you to do any sort of actuive computation such as this, so you're going to need to do some sort of scripting. I do calculations on my page

http://www.petting-zoo.org/OrderForm.html

so you might want to open that code up and take a look at what I do. It's one of those rare cases I didn't use an external JS file.

Good luck!
Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[mwolf00]

I'm guessing that the data is dynamic (asp?) or you could just total it now. The easiest way to total it would be in the server-side script that generated the page. (The way that is the most fun would be to use the javascript DOM to parse the table data and display the results) Get the Best Answers! faq333-2924
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