Table Problems

Posts: 766 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:20 am

Got a problem getting a table to look the way I want it. Heres a snapshot of it:

http://www.mtgotradingpost.com/uploads/tableproblem.jpg

I'm trying to get the "Submit a Trade Request" text moved to the right, while leaving the trader name on the left. I can't do this in two cells b/c it's dynamic output. Here's the relevant code - suggestions are welcome!

Code:

<table width="720" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MainOutline">
<td align="center" valign="top"><table width="637" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
<tr align="center" valign="middle">
<td colspan="5" class="TopCellBig">Matching Traders</td>
</tr>
   <tr align="center" valign="middle">
<td colspan="5"><p class="style2">The following traders own cards that you want. To see a full list of their cards,
   click on their username.</p>
<p class="style2">NOTE: THE "SUBMIT a Trade Request" function is still being made! </p></td>
</tr>
<cfif qGetWantedCards.RecordCount NEQ 0>
<cfquery name="qGetMatches" datasource="#dsn#" username="#un#" password="#pw#">
SELECT UserID, CardID
FROM mycards
WHERE CardID IN (#ValueList(qGetWantedCards.cardID)#)
      AND UserID <> "#cUserID#"
      AND own = 1
      ORDER BY userID ASC
</cfquery>
<cfoutput query="qGetMatches" group="UserID">
<tr>
<td colspan="5" class="formButton" width="720" height="30" align="left" valign="middle">
   <strong>
<a href="#HOMEPAGE#traders/tradercards.cfm?userID=#userID#">
   #GetUsernameFromUserID(qGetMatches.UserID)#</a> - <b><a href="#HOMEPAGE#traders/traderequest.cfm?to=#userID#">Submit Trade Request</a></b>
<div align="right"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="f5f5f5">
<td height="30" align="left" valign="middle"><cfoutput><span class="main">
   <a href = "javascript:kada_AutoResWindow('#HOMEPAGE#/images/large/#CardID#.jpg','ImageWindow','250','380','')">
   #GetCardTitlefromCardID(qGetMatches.cardID)#<br></a></span></cfoutput></td>
</tr>
</cfoutput>
<cfelse>
<tr>
<td width="720" height="30" align="center" valign="middle"><span class="leftformcell">Sorry, but you have to have cards that you want in order to find a matching trader!</span></td>
</tr>
</cfif>

</table>

Posts: 1129 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:41 am

im me tomorrow and ask when i dont have a headache k

Posts: 126 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:14 pm

I dont see why you wouldn't be able to just split the cell in two. I will talk to you when you get in today.

Posts: 1029 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:27 pm

why are you still using tables?

*thunderous laughter* Twisted Evil

MUAH HA HA HA HA HA!!! Twisted Evil

Posts: 126 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:54 pm

I think he saw my earlier post about making the tables in Frontpage and went with it Laughing

Posts: 1029 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:00 pm

OMFG and I just realized he isn't using CSS w/ those tables!!! Teh 3xtre[V]e s1n!!!

Posts: 766 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:13 pm

Yeah, my code typcially looks like a nightmare. Smile

Do as I say, not as I do. If you want to take a look at the site this is being used on, it's 'www.mtgotradingpost.com'

Posts: 746 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:27 pm

Can you explain why - especially if it is dynamic output - that you cannot do it in two cells?

I don't quite get that...I mean if there's no data you can account for that in your scripting...

Posts: 766 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:17 pm

Bobum,

I was being an id10t. It is VERY possible in two cells I was just thinking of it wrong. Smile

Alan showed me the error of my ways, so I've got it looking better now. I'll show you when I'm done!

Posts: 410 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:03 pm

Jamie, FrontPage has got a nice system for making tables... I can whip one up in 5 seconds. Then I can go back having my martini, letting the girls rub my back some more. Why must you guys spend all that time coding when FrontPage makes it so easy? Why reinvent the wheel?

Posts: 1129 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:06 pm

because allen dreamweaver can make them in 2 seconds flat and properly coded with no junk, see thats why fp takes 5 seconds, 3 seconds worth of writing extra junk code Wink

or better yet i can hit a snippet and have a table already formatted how i generally use it in 2 seconds as well

Posts: 410 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:27 pm

Touche... I didn't realize dreamweaver was that much faster. I must get one I guess... 3 more seconds with the girls would be dandy!! (hum... 'dandy', I haven't used that word since the spring of '47)

Posts: 1129 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:30 pm

awhole 3 more secs is like getting it twice!

Posts: 766 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:24 pm

Ha. Whippersnappers. I hard code all my tables.

Laughing

Posts: 1129 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:27 pm

thats why they dont work Wink