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HTML: Spanning a form across multiple td columns

Answer 1

+1 A:

One solution would be if your multiple columns were actually created in DIVs instead of tables.

David Hedlund 2009-12-01 08:08:12

Answer 2

A:

Nope, there isn't such form. But, in many browsers, your usage is working like you expected, except for when you dynamicly creat DOM elements with such structure in FireFox.

Maybe you can throw the tag, use javascript to do the submit; Or you can use to do the table layout thing.

deerchao 2009-12-01 08:11:38

Answer 3

A:

One option is to combine the columns with colspans like this:

<table>
    <tr>
        <th>
            Name
        </th>
        <th>
            Favorite Color
        </th>
        <th>
            &nbsp;
        </th>
        <th>
            &nbsp;
        </th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="4">
            <form action="/updatePerson" method="post">
                <input name="person_uuid" value="550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"/>
     <input name="name" value="John"/>
     <input name="favorite_color" value="Green"/>
     <input type="submit" value="Edit Person"/>
            </form>
            <form action="deletePerson" method="post">
                <input name="person_uuid" value="550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"/>
     <input type="submit" value="Delete Person"/>
            </form>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="4">
            <form action="/updatePerson" method="post">
                <input name="person_uuid" value="f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479"/>
                <input name="name" value="Sally"/>
     <input name="favorite_color" value="Blue"/>
     <input type="submit" value="Edit Person"/>
            </form>
            <form action="deletePerson" method="post">
                <input name="person_uuid" value="f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479"/>
     <input type="submit" value="Delete Person"/>
            </form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

And style the form element's layout with CSS. Or you can go with a pure DIV based layout.

Chris Tek 2009-12-01 08:34:34

Answer 4

A:

Use table-less design with Div's and CSS.

Eg.

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
    #wrapper
    {
        width: 600px;
    }
    #header
    {
        width: 600px;
        height:30px;
    }
    #person
    {
       clear:both;
        width:600px;        }
    .name
    {
    clear:both;
        width: 200px;
        float: left;
        text-align: center;
    }
    .color
    {
        width: 200px;
        float: left;
        text-align: center;
    }
    .submit
    {
        width: 200px;
        float: left;
        text-align: center;
    }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
    <div id="header">
        <div class="name">
            <b>Name</b></div>
        <div class="color">
            <b>Favorite Color</b></div>
    </div>
    <div id="Person">
        <form action="/updatePerson" method="post">
        <div class="name">
            <input name="name" value="John" /></div>
        <div class="color">
            <input name="favorite_color" value="Green" /></div>
        <div class="submit">
            <input type="submit" value="Edit Person" /></div>
        </form>
    </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Bruce Adams 2009-12-01 08:58:36

Answer 5

+2 A:

I'd vote for the nasty Javascript. It would allow to keep the layout as it is.

Pekka 2009-12-01 09:05:52

Answer 6

A:

You could

a) combine entire table row in one form and handle it with one server-side script.

or

b) set form.action with javascript.

yu_sha 2009-12-01 09:22:42

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