Colspan / rowspan - not lining up? 1

[1DMF]

I have the following

                    <table class="heading">
                        <thead>
                            <tr>
                                <th class="firm" rowspan="2">Firm</th>
                                <th class="adviser" rowspan="2">Adviser</th>
                                <th class="cnt" title="Submissions" rowspan="2">Subs</th>
                                <th class="cnt" title="Cases Sent for Checking" rowspan="2">Sent</th>                                
                                <th class="colspan3" title="" colspan="3">To be checked</th>                                
                                <th class="cnt" title="Cases Checked" rowspan="2">Check</th>                                
                                <th class="colspan3" title="" colspan="3">Actually checked</th>  
                                <th class="cnt" title="Total No. of Cases Overdue" rowspan="2">Over</th>                                                               
                            </tr>
                            <tr>                                

                                <th class="cnt" title="Risk Only Checks">Risk</th>                            
                                <th class="cnt" title="Standard Checks">Std</th>
                                <th class="cnt" title="Full Checks">Full</th>  
                             
                                <th class="cnt" title="Risk Only Checks">Risk</th>                                                             
                                <th class="cnt" title="Standard Checks">Std</th>
                                <th class="cnt" title="Full Checks">Full</th>
                                                      
                            </tr>
                        </thead>
                    </table>

I thought that would produce a table heading with 12 columns and two rows

1st row = first 4 cols span two rows, the next spans 3 cols, the next two rows, the next spans 3 cols and the last spans two rows.
2nd row = first 4 cols covered by above, then 3 cols, then covered by above, then 3 cols, then covered by above.

In essence Risk / Std / Full should line up under 'To be checked' and 'Actually checked', only they don't the second row starts aligned hard left under 'Firm' the first column?

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
1DMF


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[1DMF]

Seems the only browser it is working in is IE?

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[feherke]

Hi

I am afraid I do not understand you. You want this :
[pre]
┌──────┬─────────┬──────┬──────┬───────────────────┬───────┬───────────────────┬──────┐
│ │ │ │ │ To be checked │ │ Actually checked │ │
│ Firm │ Adviser │ Subs │ Sent ├──────┬─────┬──────┤ Check ├──────┬─────┬──────┤ Over │
│ │ │ │ │ Risk │ Std │ Full │ │ Risk │ Std │ Full │ │
└──────┴─────────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴─────┴──────┴───────┴──────┴─────┴──────┴──────┘
[/pre]

And the markup you posted does not render like above ?

Well,

http://dabblet.com/gist/8824249

does for me. In Gecko, Presto, WebKit and Trident.

Are you sure the CSS does not change the [tt]display[/tt] of any of those elements ?


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[1DMF]

That's exactly how it should look and does only in IE, looks like this in Opera, FF and Chrome...

┌──────┬─────────┬──────┬──────┬───────────────────┬───────┬───────────────────┬──────┐
│ Firm │ Adviser │ Subs │ Sent │ To be checked │ Check │ Actually checked │ Over │
|______|_________|______|______|___________________|_______|___________________|______|
│ Risk │ Std │ Full │ Risk │ Std │ Full│
└──────┴─────────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴─────┴

Yes all of them have display:inline-block;


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[feherke]

Hi

Yes all of them have display:inline-block;

Just like [tt]width[/tt] has no effect on [tt]inline[/tt] elements, [tt]colspan[/tt] has no effect on anything else then [tt]table-cell[/tt] elements. Personally I do expect the browsers render them that way.


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[1DMF]

ok thanks, thought the 'block' bit resolved this. wrong again!

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[feherke]

Hi

ok thanks, thought the 'block' bit resolved this. wrong again!

Sorry, I am not really fresh today. You mean that after applying CSS [tt]th { display: block }[/tt] the column spanning works again ?

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[1DMF]

no; the 'block' part of inline-block.

I changed it to table-cell and it is spanning correctly.

Though lining up a table head with a table body to enable a fixed heading with an overflow scroll drives me nuts.

Why the hell you can't overflow-scroll a tbody is beyond me, leaving the thead part of the same table is beyond me.

Do you ever have those days where it feels like you've worked ya butt off but got nothing done?

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[feherke]

Hi

Oh, the scrolling table. Tried it some time ago. I managed to make two versions : one functional and one portable. Never succeeded in combining both features in one solution. :-(


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[ChrisHirst]

If you actually need a tabular layout to display tabular data why not just use a table?


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[vacunita]

If you actually need a tabular layout to display tabular data why not just use a table?

He is using a table.

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