Using external html table generator

rhoyt · 12-20-2013, 09:58 AM

I am a noobie so actually writing html for a large table in Sigil would be an exercise in frustration for my textbook>>EPUB. Sigil is great but I see no way to copy the code from an external table generator into the appropriate location using Sigil. It only cuts and pastes content already inside (not external stuff).I did convert a table to a .png but it doesn't look very good. Any other thoughts would be appreciated....Bob

theducks · 12-20-2013, 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rhoyt

I am a noobie so actually writing html for a large table in Sigil would be an exercise in frustration for my textbook>>EPUB. Sigil is great but I see no way to copy the code from an external table generator into the appropriate location using Sigil. It only cuts and pastes content already inside (not external stuff).I did convert a table to a .png but it doesn't look very good. Any other thoughts would be appreciated....Bob

If you do your BOTH cut (in your Table Generator) and paste in code view the code comes across properly. (in addition you may need to move-copy the CSS portion)

Doesn't the 'Table generator' Export/save a HTML file? Do that, the use 'Add Existing' to get it into Sigil.
If you are doing this as a Linear creation Process:

Code:

write
insert table
write
insert nother table

You can simply use Sigil's option to 'Merge' the two and continue

Doitsu · 12-20-2013, 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rhoyt

I am a noobie so actually writing html for a large table in Sigil would be an exercise in frustration for my textbook>>EPUB.

There are lots of websites that'll automatically generate custom table HTML code for you that you can paste into HTML documents in Code View mode. I like Quackit's HTML Table Generator, but there are many other sites that offer the same functionality.

It's also relatively easy to convert existing tab delimited data or CSV files to an HTML table with TextFixer.

mrmikel · 12-20-2013, 07:33 PM

HOWEVER, tables have numerous problems. The main one is that the user can blow the thing up to where the information goes everywhere by increasing text size. For that reason a number of people will just use images which can be made to track with page size.

rhoyt · 12-27-2013, 07:23 AM

Thanks to everyone for their help. After some expermentation I copied the code from the table generator into a Word document and saved it as a web page. I imported that into Sigil and then I could cut and paste and it worked very well.....Bob

DiapDealer · 12-27-2013, 07:52 AM

I don't get it. Why can't you just paste the html into Code View in Sigil? Getting Word involved seems like overkill.

Toxaris · 12-27-2013, 08:10 AM

That would work DiapDealer. However, some people want to take the difficult route and add a lot of excessive code...

12-20-2013, 09:58 AM	#1
rhoyt Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2013 Device: iPad	Using external html table generator I am a noobie so actually writing html for a large table in Sigil would be an exercise in frustration for my textbook>>EPUB. Sigil is great but I see no way to copy the code from an external table generator into the appropriate location using Sigil. It only cuts and pastes content already inside (not external stuff).I did convert a table to a .png but it doesn't look very good. Any other thoughts would be appreciated....Bob

12-20-2013, 07:33 PM	#4
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	HOWEVER, tables have numerous problems. The main one is that the user can blow the thing up to where the information goes everywhere by increasing text size. For that reason a number of people will just use images which can be made to track with page size. Last edited by mrmikel; 12-27-2013 at 08:02 AM.

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rhoyt Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2013 Device: iPad	Thanks to everyone for their help. After some expermentation I copied the code from the table generator into a Word document and saved it as a web page. I imported that into Sigil and then I could cut and paste and it worked very well.....Bob

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DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,546 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	I don't get it. Why can't you just paste the html into Code View in Sigil? Getting Word involved seems like overkill.

12-27-2013, 08:10 AM	#7
Toxaris Wizard Posts: 4,520 Karma: 121692313 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Heemskerk, NL Device: PRS-T1, Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura	That would work DiapDealer. However, some people want to take the difficult route and add a lot of excessive code...