Tables, Nested Tables Etc.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Okay, This is reeeeeeally pissing me off. I'm having a fair bit of trouble making a simple fucking table for my programming assignment.

It's supposed to have row groups for the header, table body, and footer. And that's where I keep fucking my code up, I think.

So, like, so far it looks like::

<table border="7" bordercolor="brown" bordercolorlight="tan" cellspacing="0"

cellpadding="2" rules="groups" width="70%" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em">

<caption style="font-weight: bold">Cougar Sightings This Year</caption>

<thead>

<tr style="background-color:pink">

<th>Location</th>

<th>Jan</th>

<th>Feb</th>

<th>Mar</th>

<th>Apr</th>

<th>May</th>

<th>TOTAL</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tfoot>

<tr style="background-color:pink" font-weight="bold">

<th>Park City</th>

<th>Riley</th>

<th>Dixon</th>

<th>Total</th>

</tr>

</tfoot>

<tr style="background-color:pink">

<tbody>

<th>0</th>

<th>2</th>

<th>0</th>

But when I test it in IE & FireFox, it comes out looking all mangled and wrong. And I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've told my instructor that I'm having a fair bit of trouble with this (and he says tables is one of the hardest chapters, as well as forms). He put up an instructional video on the campus website and has posted some notes for it, but I still don't understand.

I think I've said enough.. maybe. Can someone help? :ohwell:

[Guest DiamondDust]

It works fine when you finish the code...

[MalaCloudy Black]

It works fine when you finish the code...

I'm gonna finish the code real quick.

For future reference, you bastard, don't be so cryptic.

You're a bastard and I hate you, I finished the code and it's not working right AT ALL.

<table border="7" bordercolor="brown" bordercolorlight="tan" cellspacing="0"

cellpadding="2" rules="groups" width="70%" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em">

<caption style="font-weight: bold">Cougar Sightings This Year</caption>

<thead>

<tr style="background-color:pink">

<th>Location</th>

<th>Jan</th>

<th>Feb</th>

<th>Mar</th>

<th>Apr</th>

<th>May</th>

<th>TOTAL</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tfoot>

<tr style="background-color:pink" font-weight="bold" align="right">

<th>Park City</th>

<th>Riley</th>

<th>Dixon</th>

<th>Total</th>

</tr>

</tfoot>

<tr style="background-color:pink" align="right">

<tbody>

<th>0</th>

<th>2</th>

<th>0</th>

<th>2</th>

<th>1</th>

<th>2</th>

<th>1</th>

<th>1</th>

<th>3</th>

<th>3</th>

<th>3</th>

<th>1</th>

<th>4</th>

<th>2</th>

<th>4</th>

<th>10</th>

<th>9</th>

<th>10</th>

<th>2</th>

<th>5</th>

<th>5</th>

<th>7</th>

<th>10</th>

<th>29</th>

</tbody>

Edited September 21, 2005 by Queer Eye For The Pirate Guy

[Guest DiamondDust]

YOur extending your table too far.

<table border="7" bordercolor="brown" bordercolorlight="tan" cellspacing="0"

cellpadding="2" rules="groups" width="70%" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em">

<caption style="font-weight: bold">Cougar Sightings This Year</caption>

<thead>

<tr style="background-color:pink">

<th>Location</th>

<th>Jan</th>

<th>Feb</th>

<th>Mar</th>

<th>Apr</th>

<th>May</th>

<th>May</th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tfoot>

<tr style="background-color:pink" font-weight="bold" align="right">

<th>Park City</th>

<th>Riley</th>

<th>Dixon</th>

<th>Total</th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

<th></th>

</tr>

</tfoot>

<tr style="background-color:pink" align="right">

<tbody>

<th>0</th>

<th>2</th>

<th>0</th>

<th>2</th>

<th>1</th>

<th>2</th>

<th>1</th>

<th>1</th>

<th>3</th>

<th>3</th>

<th>3</th>

<th>1</th>

<th>4</th>

<th>2</th>

<th>4</th>

<th>10</th>

<th>9</th>

<th>10</th>

<th>2</th>

<th>5</th>

<th>5</th>

<th>7</th>

<th>10</th>

<th>29</th>

</tbody>

Should work out right. Just fill the info in the TH tags.

[MalaCloudy Black]

But..

all..

the info that I need.. is already filled in.

:@

Not to mention that it looks just like it did before if I use the code you put there.

I wish I could scan a pic of how it's supposed to look, but my scanner is being shitty. :@

Edited September 21, 2005 by Queer Eye For The Pirate Guy

[kliq]

But..

all..

the info that I need.. is already filled in.

:@

Not to mention that it looks just like it did before if I use the code you put there.

I wish I could scan a pic of how it's supposed to look, but my scanner is being shitty. :@

Need to see what it's meant to look like. Do they actually teach you to code like that btw? lol.

[MalaCloudy Black]

The best I can say is that it's supposed to look more like:

MONTH ->January February March April Etc.

Park City 5 6

Riley 2 7

Dixon 3 9

TOTAL:

Er.. does that help any, at all?

And, well, sometimes they teach us like that, but for the most part I'm a disorganized bastard. ^^;

EDIT: No, no that doesn't really help. Argh. I can't scan how it's supposed to look though.

One more quick edit to try and see if I can't replicate it with a text table.

Okay, that's not helping AT ALL. I'm sorry. Does anyone understand what the fuck I'm trying to make it look like, though?!

Edited September 21, 2005 by Queer Eye For The Pirate Guy

[Dan]

Don't you need the <html> bits?

[MalaCloudy Black]

I have those, I'm just copying the table coding since that's all that's giving me a problem.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Oh my.

I just figured out what I was doing wrong. I wasn't putting the data in rows, was I?

like, for instance, the cities should look like::

<tr>Park City</tr>

<tr>Dixon</tr>

<tr>Riley</tr>

as opposed to using <th>, right? I feel so stupid.

[Mountainous Cleavage]

Oh my.

I just figured out what I was doing wrong. I wasn't putting the data in rows, was I?

like, for instance, the cities should look like::

<tr>Park City</tr>

<tr>Dixon</tr>

<tr>Riley</tr>

as opposed to using <th>, right? I feel so stupid.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Oh my.

I just figured out what I was doing wrong. I wasn't putting the data in rows, was I?

like, for instance, the cities should look like::

<tr>Park City</tr>

<tr>Dixon</tr>

<tr>Riley</tr>

as opposed to using <th>, right? I feel so stupid.

Thats what I was thinking, but I'm not good with HTML so I kept my mouth shut.

Speak up next time.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Wait, no, that's still not right.

[Mountainous Cleavage]

Therefore, I'll keep my mouth shut next time.

[kliq]

The best I can say is that it's supposed to look more like:

MONTH ->January February March April Etc.

Park City 5 6

Riley 2 7

Dixon 3 9

TOTAL:

Er.. does that help any, at all?

And, well, sometimes they teach us like that, but for the most part I'm a disorganized bastard. ^^;

EDIT: No, no that doesn't really help. Argh. I can't scan how it's supposed to look though.

One more quick edit to try and see if I can't replicate it with a text table.

Okay, that's not helping AT ALL. I'm sorry. Does anyone understand what the fuck I'm trying to make it look like, though?!

Why not try making it in Word?

[Shorty]

wouldn't it go

<TR>

<TD>Month</TD>

<TD>jan</TD>

<TD>feb</TD>

</TR>

<TR>

<TD>Park City</TD>

<TD>raggdgsgSH</TD>

</TR>

etc.??