HTML Export to excel and colspans

[jenbug2000]

Hi,
I am trying to figure out how to make colspans work in an html table when I export the data to excel. Im not looking for someone to tell me, but I really would appreicate some pointing in the right direction so that I can learn. Maybe a good tutorial or website or some thread on this forum that I have not found yet. I have been looking endlessly for this exact topic.

Thanks

jennifer

 

[icrf]

Make colspans work? You mean when excel reads the html table, it doesn't merge cells where the colspans are set > 1? (sorry, I don't have the necc tools to test locally)

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Andrew

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[jenbug2000]

Sorry, I guess it doesnt help that I cannot properly explain my problem. I am very new to asp.net and html (obviously) Anyway, all I know is that there is some issues with asp.net (the way it reads rows or col's differently?) and for my internship project I am going to take our code from an asp page and make it work in an asp.net page. I was just looking for some good sites that might tell me about how the .net reads html tables or if I am totally wrong about this whole thing. I appreicate any help in finding good sites or code examples.

thanks
jen

 

[icrf]

ASP.NET, like ASP, is just an application framework that normally generates HTML, which may include tables. How that data is read depends on the client. An html table renders differently in Excel, IE, or a terminal, but the process in ASP.NET to generate it isn't.

Sorry if I'm not being helpful. Was there some specific "issues" with it you recall? Google and the FAQ here are probably reasonable places to start looking for ASP.NET information and tutorials.

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Andrew

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