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  Hardhead

  Posts: 65 June 2010

  Yeah, but it's a pain. You have to include the following in *each cell* you want to have a border:
  
  bc. {border:1px solid black}.
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  Fluke

  Posts: 16 June 2010

  Hmmm, I was afraid of that, lol
  
  Well, thanks! ;-)
  Maybe I'll get the ambition to do that sometime soonish... ;-P
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  gnunn

  Posts: 423 June 2010

  I just use the work-around of making rows with alternating shading. If you do that, you just have to put the formatting at the beginning of each row... or even each shaded row, if your base background is white.
  
  | cell | cell | cell |
  {background:#ddd}. | cell | cell | cell |
  | cell | cell | cell |
  {background:#ddd}. | cell | cell | cell |
  | cell | cell | cell |
  {background:#ddd}. | cell | cell | cell |
  | cell | cell | cell |
  {background:#ddd}. | cell | cell | cell |
  
  Combined with a border around the whole table, I feel like this technique keeps things easy to read, while keeping the work reasonable.
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  Fluke

  Posts: 16 June 2010

  Well, That would work in some of my tables but the main one I want to do this on has a shaded column... I'm not sure how it would look with that as well...
• Persephone

  Posts: 7 July 2010 edited July 2010

  I found a great Textile help manual. I have not had a chance to test all of it yet but it is really well organized. For an old geek like me who reads HTML being able to see the XHML was a help to understanding it (though you have to click the little check box to turn it on!!).
  
  "Threshold State":http://thresholdstate.com/articles/4312/the-textile-reference-manual#toc_0
  
  ~ Persephone
  
  PS Yes! I managed to link to an outside site using Textile!

  Post edited by Persephone on July 2010
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  JimTriche

  Posts: 483 July 2010

  Fluke, I'm not sure but I think you have to manually enter the background on each cell. Gnunn is the Textile guru here though, maybe he has an easier way?
• Persephone

  Posts: 7 July 2010 edited July 2010

  The textile on this site does not support this format unfortunately
  
  table(table{background:green}).
  | A | B | C |

  Post edited by Persephone on July 2010
• Persephone

  Posts: 7 July 2010 edited July 2010

  This site also unfortunately does not seem to support this textile format.
  
  (row {background:green}). | A | B | C |
  
  I am sorry. I could not seem to find any other way to do it.
  
  ~ Persephone

  Post edited by Persephone on July 2010
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  JimTriche

  Posts: 483 July 2010

  OK, this is the look you're attempting (a column of a different color)
  
  Textile does the rows easy, as only one code is needed for the row at the beginning regardless of cells. For columns, you have to manually count off the cells and put the code in each time.
  
  Code like this:
  
  table{width:600px;border 1px solid white;font-family:verdana}.
  {background:#000000;color:#0055EE}. |=. TEST |={background:#000022;color:#3399FF}. TEST |=. TEST |
  {background:#000022;color:#3399FF}. |=. TEST |=. TEST |=. TEST |
  {background:#000000;color:#0055EE}. |=. TEST |={background:#000022;color:#3399FF}. TEST |=. TEST |
  {background:#000022;color:#3399FF}. |=. TEST |=. TEST |=. TEST |
  {background:#000000;color:#0055EE}. |=. TEST |={background:#000022;color:#3399FF}. TEST |=. TEST |
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  JimTriche

  Posts: 483 July 2010

  Should result in the center column in a blue color as well as the second and fourth rows. You have to add the style tag to each cell unfortunately, but with a bit of effort it will work.
  
  table{width:600px;border 1px solid white;font-family:verdana}.
  {background:#000000;color:#0055EE}. |=. TEST |={background:#000022;color:#3399FF}. TEST |=. TEST |
  {background:#000022;color:#3399FF}. |=. TEST |=. TEST |=. TEST |
  {background:#000000;color:#0055EE}. |=. TEST |={background:#000022;color:#3399FF}. TEST |=. TEST |
  {background:#000022;color:#3399FF}. |=. TEST |=. TEST |=. TEST |
  {background:#000000;color:#0055EE}. |=. TEST |={background:#000022;color:#3399FF}. TEST |=. TEST |
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  JimTriche

  Posts: 483 July 2010

  Er, well, the forum doesn't allow you to change the background, but you can try the code out on a wiki page, or on "this site":http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/index.php
• Persephone

  Posts: 7 July 2010

  I think the reason why it is not working is looking over the accepted attributes for the site, background is not listed as one of them.
  
  ~ Persephone
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  gnunn

  Posts: 423 July 2010

  Persephone
  
  As far as I know this site does support the background attribute. I use it all the time in my own tables. It looks like the code examples you used include an extra set of parenthesis around the attribute, which is probably what is breaking your code.
  
  To work on OP, this:
  
  table(table{background:green}).
  | A | B | C |
  
  Should be written like this:
  
  table{background:green}.
  | A | B | C |
• Persephone

  Posts: 7 July 2010 edited July 2010

  Test
  
  table{background:green}.
  | A | B | C |
  
  I see it works in the Wiki but not here... operator error.
  
  ~Persephone

  Post edited by Persephone on July 2010