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<Pietro De Santis>
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Why does the SUBHEAD clause of a WebFOCUS request create the HTML in a separate TABLE:

...
<TR><TD COLSPAN=3>
<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH="100%">
<TR>
<TD>
COUNTRY: ENGLAND</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD>
JAGUAR></TD>
</TR>
...

Why can't it be:

<TR><TD COLSPAN=3>
COUNTRY: ENGLAND
</TD></TR>

Or, even better:

<TR><TD COLSPAN=3>COUNTRY: ENGLAND</TD></TR>

I'm attempting to generate some dynamic HTML from a WF request, with some elements hidden (using CSS), but, because of the extra TABLE tags, unneccesary blank space is appearing on the HTML page.

Thanks,

Pietro
 
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Mikel
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WebFOCUS create separate TABLE when HEADING is not aligned with data.

For example, this report generates separated TABLE:



TABLE FILE CAR
HEADING
"MY HEADING"
BY CAR
BY COUNTRY
END

The following example, aligning heading columns with data (using HEADALIGN=BODY) and deactivating automatic pagination (SET PAGE=OFF/NOLEAD), don't create additional TABLE:



TABLE FILE CAR
HEADING
"MY HEADING"
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT, HEADALIGN=BODY, $
TYPE=HEADING, LINE=1, ITEM=1, COLSPAN=2, $
END

Regards,
Mikel

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Posts: 173 | Location: Madrid, Spain | Registered: May 09, 2003Report This Post
Mikel
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Ah! And don't forget to use SET HTMLCSS=ON (combined with SET CSSURL).

This WebFOCUS settings allow generate better HTML code, creating automatic CSS classes and allowing also to use your own CSS classes.

Regards.
Mikel
 
Posts: 173 | Location: Madrid, Spain | Registered: May 09, 2003Report This Post
Bob Jude Ferrante
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Pietro--
You asked why the subhead is in a separate table; the reason is that we use that to allow the heading to span multiple columns. At the time we designed this, colspan wasn't supported on all browsers. You can manually control column spanning in v 4.3.x and higher.

There's also a technique that turns the separate table off, of course, but it's not intuitive. Setting ACCESSIBLE to 508 (for Section 508 compatibility) disables the creation of separate tables for headings. This was done so the headings would not be seen by screen reading software as separate from their data.

Our best to you!
 
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