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From: Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>
Subject: html export: row/column dividers in tables
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:01:44 -0500
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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
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