Dynamic Table question for Mohammad

[History Buff]

Hey Mohammad,

Once again, I can't say enough about your dynamic tables. I love them!

I would like to tweak the styling a bit and can't figure out how to get what I want. I'm using the tbl-expand feature to see the text area and I'd like to style that area differently than the rest of the table. I'd specifically like to change the background color to set it off from everything else. What is the secret sauce that will allow me to do this?

Thanks so much in advance!

Damon

[Mohammad Rahmani]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 3:38 AM History Buff <damon.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Mohammad,

Hi Damon,

Once again, I can't say enough about your dynamic tables. I love them!

I would like to tweak the styling a bit and can't figure out how to get what I want. I'm using the tbl-expand feature to see the text area and I'd like to style that area differently than the rest of the table. I'd specifically like to change the background color to set it off from everything else. What is the secret sauce that will allow me to do this?

Shiraz Dynamic table is highly modular. In this case you can edit the $:/plugins/kookma/shiraz/macros/dtables/display-extrecord

For example to have the yellow background hack as below

\define display-extended-record()

<td colspan=<<ncols>>  >

to

\define display-extended-record()

<td colspan=<<ncols>> style="background-color:lightgrey;" > 

 

Best wishes

Mohammad

Thanks so much in advance!

Damon

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[History Buff]

Thanks for the suggestion. I may try that at some point, but I prefer not to modify plugin tiddlers if I can avoid it.

After I asked the question, I realized that the tbl-expand feature takes up a whole row (turns out it's every even row). In the style I use for the dynamic tables, I defined the background-color using tr:nth-child(even) and this worked great. Do you foresee any issues with this approach?

Damon

[Mohammad Rahmani]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 11:48 AM History Buff <damon.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. I may try that at some point, but I prefer not to modify plugin tiddlers if I can avoid it.

No worry, this is kind of customization! do it as you like! 

After I asked the question, I realized that the tbl-expand feature takes up a whole row (turns out it's every even row). In the style I use for the dynamic tables, I defined the background-color using tr:nth-child(even) and this worked great. Do you foresee any issues with this approach?

I do not think this works properly as you expand more tiddlers, then this will not work!

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[History Buff]

Interesting. I have not seen that behavior. So far it hasn't mattered how many rows I expand; it seems to work fine and I have had 8 or 10 expanded at the same time. May I ask why you think this might be a problem?

[Mohammad Rahmani]

Best wishes

Mohammad

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 9:21 PM History Buff <damon.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Interesting. I have not seen that behavior. So far it hasn't mattered how many rows I expand; it seems to work fine and I have had 8 or 10 expanded at the same time. May I ask why you think this might be a problem?

If it works go for that! no problem!

 

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[History Buff]

Thanks. I'll continue doing what I'm doing and will let you know if I come across any issues. I really appreciate the feedback!