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From: Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>
Subject: Re: html export: row/column dividers in tables
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:20:09 -0500
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On Mon Mar 30 2009 at 23:44, Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

> Hi Bill, 
>
> If I understand your post correctly, I think this section of the manual
> will help to accomplish what you are looking for---i.e., the creation of
> special vertical lines in tables:
>
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-groups.html#Column-groups

Thanks, I'd missed that.

> Also you change the appearance of tables using css. 

I'll take a look.

Many thanks -

bw

> Best,
> Matt
>
> Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
>
>> I recently found a need for visible dividers (or "rules") between the
>> rows and columns of an org table exported to html.  The most recent
>> discussion of this that I could find on gmane was
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/1709/match=table+rules+html
>> from 2007, which concluded that such rules weren't supported, so here's
>> a kludgey workaround I found today:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_HTML
>> <pre>
>> |----+----+----+----|
>> | a0 | b0 | c0 | d0 |
>> |----+----+----+----|
>> | a1 | b1 | c1 | d1 |
>> |----+----+----+----|
>> | a2 | b2 | c2 | d2 |
>> |----+----+----+----|
>> </pre>
>> #+END_HTML
>>
>> It isn't pretty, but it works when you really need visual separation of
>> rows and columns.  Here's what it looks like in real life:
>>
>> http://members.wolfram.com/billw/VerbatimTables.html
>>
>> BTW, here's how I got the org-mode code sample onto the webpage:
>>
>> #+begin_src org
>> #+BEGIN_HTML
>> <pre>
>> |----+----+----+----|
>> | a0 | b0 | c0 | d0 |
>> |----+----+----+----|
>> | a1 | b1 | c1 | d1 |
>> |----+----+----+----|
>> | a2 | b2 | c2 | d2 |
>> |----+----+----+----|
>> </pre>
>> #+END_HTML
>> #+end_src
>>
>> Cheers -
>>
>> bw
>
>


Cheers -

bw
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