Tables

[Cyberseeker]

I have several tables in my books, one having 7 columns and 30 rows. Does Epub recognise table css? If so, can someone suggest a stylesheet blurb for me to experiment with?

[Turtle91]

Yes ePub recognizes table css, but device/app compliance is hit or miss. I would definitely not want to do 7 columns on a small cell-phone...they would never see anything.

I would recommend converting the way the information is displayed to a re-flowable format...or.... if you MUST use a table... then insert it as an image.

[lumpynose]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

I would recommend converting the way the information is displayed to a re-flowable format...or.... if you MUST use a table... then insert it as an image.

(More thread necro here. )

I've been foolishly assuming that the tables in the uploaded Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii were coming out correctly and have discovered that on the Kobo, one, they aren't centered and I'm using auto on margin-left and margin-right, and two, columns that are supposed to be right justified are not, and three, if I use margin-top on the table tag it puts that space between the table and the caption even though the caption tag is enclosed by the table tags. Those things are working in ADE and Kindle Previewer 3 (but not on Kindle Previewer 2 but no surprise there). Here's my css for the numeric right justified columns:

table.col2num td:nth-child(2) {
    text-align: right;
}

table.col3num td:nth-child(3) {
    text-align: right;
}
etc.

The data really is tabular; production of sugar per year and whatnot. So how do you display a table in re-flowable format?

[lumpynose]

Eh, now that I've calmed down I guess I can see how to make the stuff re-flowable. For example, the 5 column table in the chapter "At Sea Again" I could say "The exportations in pounds for coffee for 1852 were 117,000, sugar 730,000, for 1865 coffee was 263,000 and sugar was 15,318,097." Is that what you'd do?

But some of the tables are long, and in another book I feel like the information is more easily digested in tabular form.

Stupid Kobo.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by lumpynose

Eh, now that I've calmed down I guess I can see how to make the stuff re-flowable. For example, the 5 column table in the chapter "At Sea Again" I could say "The exportations in pounds for coffee for 1852 were 117,000, sugar 730,000, for 1865 coffee was 263,000 and sugar was 15,318,097." Is that what you'd do?

But some of the tables are long, and in another book I feel like the information is more easily digested in tabular form.

Stupid Kobo.

The solution is for the table to not display any of the lines and one row per line so it splits correctly at the end of the page.

[lumpynose]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The solution is for the table to not display any of the lines and one row per line so it splits correctly at the end of the page.

Ok, thanks. Let me try that. I'll take out the 1px borders.