ROWSPAN PROBLEM

saravananedu · July 27th, 2004, 01:01 AM

hi..all,
i found a problem while i want to display a table with rowspan property. if i use rowspan, then the table's alignment gets collapsed. herewith i'm attaching a sample code.Please copy and paste the following code and test it in your browser, and help me out to recover from this problem.

in this, i want to display the first column as a merged one if the consequence data are same. so that i put rowspan=3 (for ex.) in the first td (that is commented in the following code) but i couldn't get the output what i expect. please replace the first <td> with commented <td> and see the output.
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<body font="Ms Sans Serif" Size=1>
<table border="1">

<tr><td>val1</td><td>val2</td><td>val3</td><td>sum</td></tr>
<%
for j=1 to 2
sum=0
for i=1 to 3
a=j
b=a+i
c=b+i
sum=sum+a+b+c

%>

<tr><td><%=a%></td><td><%=b%></td><td><%=c%></td><% if i=3 then %><td valign="center" align="center"><%=sum%></td><%else%><td valign="center" align="center"> </td><%end if%></tr>
<%
next
next
%>
</table>
</body>

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Please help me to solve this problem as quickly as possible.

Thanks in Advance.

Yours,
Saran

ChrisScott · July 27th, 2004, 03:09 AM

Hi Saran,

Can't really understand what you're after - the browser is doing what you are telling it to.

Can you explain what you mean by "i want to display the first column as a merged one if the consequence data are same".

Cheers,

Chris

saravananedu · July 27th, 2004, 03:53 AM

At Last i found the solution with the help of my friend.

i'm using for loop in the example. so i should check the condition "if i=1 then" "end if". when the i takes the value 2 or 3, we should just leave without generate first <td> column.

here is the code:
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<body font="Ms Sans Serif" Size=1>
<table border="1">

<tr><td>val1</td><td>val2</td><td>val3</td><td>sum</td></tr>
<%
for j=1 to 2
sum=0
for i=1 to 3
a=j
b=a+i
c=b+i
sum=sum+a+b+c

%>

<tr>
<% if i=1 then%>
<td rowspan=3>
<%=a%></td>
<% end if %><td> <%=b%></td><td><%=c%></td><% if i=3 then %><td valign="center" align="center"><b><%=sum%></b></td><%else%><td valign="center" align="center"> </td><%end if%></tr>
<%
next
next
%>
</table>
</body>

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but now i have another small doubt.
see the output of the above coding, and in that, can we set the sum value to the middle of its corresponding block. ie. now it is displayed in 3rd row of every block. i want it to display on 2nd row.
is it possible without any looping process(ie..we should not calculate the sum in advance and display). is there any rowspan related property to go back to 2nd row from 3rd row.

Yours,
Saran

saravananedu · July 27th, 2004, 03:58 AM

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your reply.
actually i found a solution for this. please see the reply to ROWSPAN PROBLEM in our forum and in this now i got another doubt. please see it and give me suggestions.
thanx

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by ChrisScott
Hi Saran,

Can't really understand what you're after - the browser is doing what you are telling it to.

Can you explain what you mean by "i want to display the first column as a merged one if the consequence data are same".

Cheers,

Chris

Yours,
Saran