| Author: | editHere.com | |||
| Posted: | 2/28/01; 9:19:15 PM | |||
| Topic: | Table It Plug-in | |||
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With the Table It plug-in anyone who can view a discussion group message can display the discussion group message text as an HTML table in a new browser window. Table It will display any discussion group message text that is tab delimited as an HTML table.
How to enable Table It
You can enable and disable plug-ins by going to the Plug-ins page in your website prefs.
Check the box next to tableIt. Your plug-ins page will look something like this:
Click the Submit button. Table It has no Editor interface.
How to use the Table It plug-in
See Macros below.
Macros
{tableItMacros.link (label, link)}
This creates a link to the Table It window. To use the macro, place it in the Message templates for the discussion group of your website. The label and link parameters are optional.
You can define the appearance of the Table It link.
label is the text for the label of the Table It link. link is the text for the link of the Table It link. The label parameter must contain the special text "[[label]]" when used. The link parameter must contain the special text "[[link]]" when used.
Example:
{tableItMacros.link (label: "<tr><td><b>[[label]]:</b></td>", link: "<td>[[link]]</td></tr>")}
Limitations
Table It can only be used when viewing a discussion group message.
Notes
In some cases Netscape Communicator doesn't display HTML in HTML tables properly. The SPAN tag with the use of the style attribute has produced anomalous display results.