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TWiki 4.0.2 had a nice broder for tables that made cells borders recognizable. The latest PatternSkin shows tables without a border which makes it hard to recognize cell boundaries. Also, the table heading colors and the alternate row colors are too similar and too faint, especially on a laptop screen.

See attached image for illustration.

I recommend to revert tables to the 4.0.2 look.

-- PTh

I dare adding this without opening another bug item.

The same problem is also present in print view. Large tables being printed are not easily read because the cells have no borders at all anymore. I do not ask for dominant borders. Just weak borders so you can see the rows and columns.

On the normal view I think the 4.0.2 look was too much borders and contrast. I would like something between 4.0.2 and the current. A good middle ground between the two.

KJL


I have changed the colors.

AC

Hmm, I still find the contrast way too weak. In fact on a Sony Vaio laptop screen I can't even tell that there are alternate colors, yet a border; on another LCD screen I can see them, but also there I find the colors and border too faint, with an almost girlish color theme. The table header and alternat table row color is almost the same, shich makes it hard to tell what table headers are. TWiki is a bold project, I really like the 4.0.2 color scheme for tables. Also, we need to make it robust for users that do not have a high contrast screen.

-- PTh

We are striving for a middle ground. At the same time I do not want to introduce too many colors. The data bg is now the left bar bg.

I will give it one more try.

AC

Revision 11762. Header colors shamelessly ripped from Apple.

AC

OK, now I broke the attachment table headers.

AC

Thanks, the latest colors can be seen now on the Vaio.

-- PTh

New issue emerged: Dark table header makes text and links hard to read. See WebSearch

-- PTh

Ah, good catch. An unwanted side effect of unifying colors.

AC

It also seems that the TABLEATTRIBUTES are no longer respected. At least not for the header. It remains white no matter what value I have in headercolor.

This is a TABLEATTRIBUTES example which now gives a poor looking table format.

Set TABLEATTRIBUTES = tableborder="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" headerbg="#dadada" headercolor="#000000" databg="#eaeaea, #ffffff"

The test in the header is now supposed to be black. The TABLEATTRIBUTES must continue to work for all parameters.

KJL


TABLEATTRIBUTES are being respected. But not the header color. This is a limitation of css: font will not override the link color. A solution would be to use span style instead of font.

AC

You are the expert on CSS. As long as it works in the end smile The header color is part of TABLEATTRIBUTES and must also work.

KJL

You are right: more attributes are failing. Working on it.

AC

Should be better now. All attributes work now, except for tableframe and tablerules.

AC

Do not see that anyone is waiting for feedback. Just for the last two attributes to work. Has this been fixed now? Setting to actioning since I assume Arthur is actioning this.

KJL

I suspect tablerules was never supported properly, because it requires additional table markup that TablePlugin does not write.

<table border=5 rules=groups>
<thead>
<tr> <th>One</th> <th>Two</th> <th>Three</th> <th>Tour</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr> <td>1</td> <td>abc</td> <td>vwx</td> <td>01 Jan 1900</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>2</td> <td>def</td> <td>stu</td> <td>31 Dec 1999</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>3</td> <td>ghi</td> <td>pqr</td> <td>15 Jan 2006</td> </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

One Two Three Tour
1 abc vwx 01 Jan 1900
2 def stu 31 Dec 1999
3 ghi pqr 15 Jan 2006

Or by using colgroup span:

<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=4 RULES=GROUPS  FRAME=BOX>

<COLGROUP></COLGROUP>
<COLGROUP SPAN=3></COLGROUP>

<TR> <TH>Weekday</TH> <TH>Date</TH>    <TH>Manager</TH> <TH>Qty</TH> </TR>

<TR> <TD>Monday</TD> <TD>09/11</TD>    <TD>Kelsey</TD> <TD>639</TD>  </TR>
<TR> <TD>Tuesday</TD> <TD>09/12</TD>   <TD>Lindsey</TD> <TD>596</TD> </TR>

<TR> <TD>Wednesday</TD> <TD>09/13</TD> <TD>Randy</TD> <TD>1135</TD>  </TR>
<TR> <TD>Thursday</TD> <TD>09/14</TD>  <TD>Susan</TD> <TD>1002</TD>  </TR>

<TR> <TD>Friday</TD> <TD>09/15</TD>    <TD>Randy</TD> <TD>908</TD>   </TR>
<TR> <TD>Saturday</TD> <TD>09/16</TD>  <TD>Lindsey</TD> <TD>371</TD> </TR>

<TR> <TD>Sunday</TD> <TD>09/17</TD>    <TD>Susan</TD> <TD>272</TD>   </TR>
</TABLE>

Weekday Date Manager Qty
Monday 09/11 Kelsey 639
Tuesday 09/12 Lindsey 596
Wednesday 09/13 Randy 1135
Thursday 09/14 Susan 1002
Friday 09/15 Randy 908
Saturday 09/16 Lindsey 371
Sunday 09/17 Susan 272

(examples from http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/tables/_TABLE_RULES_GROUPS.html).

I've made a couple of changes so that th and td are implicitly recognized as groups.

tableframe works ok.

Marking this as "waiting for release".

AC

Updated the headline for release note. Besides fixing a post 4.0.5 introduced problem some of the checkins also covers improvements from 4.0.5 till 4.1.0. Headline reflects this now.

KJL

4.1.0 released

KJL

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Summary PatternSkin: Improvements of table cosmetics
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
Codebase ~twiki4
SVN Range TWiki-4.1, Sun, 08 Oct 2006, build 11688
AppliesTo Extension
Component PatternSkin
Priority Normal
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor

Checkins 11752 11762 11767 11786 11788 11817 12062 12095 12096
TargetRelease minor
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