Re: Creating a table with merged cells

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You may want to look into the rowspan and colspan attributes of <td>

G'luck!

On 23/08/07, Phpmanni <php@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi
> I need to represent a sort of map. The map is a rectangular
> table of size X in widht and Y in height, so that I have X*Y
> square cells. I need to record in a database some infos for
> each cell.
> This is easy, I thought to use a record that is something
> like (X,Y,MyData), so with two nested loops I can create the
> HTML table with data in it.
> The problem is that I need to join adjacent cells, so that I
> can obtain bigger cells made of base little square cells.
> So, starting from a table like this (see with fixed size font)
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> | | | | | | | | | |
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> | | | | | | | | | |
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> | | | | | | | | | |
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>
> I must find a way to store in the database a table like this
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> | 2 | | | |4 cells|
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> | |BIGBIGB| | | | |
> +-+BIGBIGB+-+-+-+-+
> | |BIGBIGB| | | | |
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>
> I thougt to use a record like (X,Y,XWIDTH,YHEIGHT,DATA), but
> I cannot imagine the way to create the resulting HTML table.
> Using graphics will be a lot easyer, but I must insert
> combos and checkboxes into the cells, so I must use html...
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
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