Is there a way to target specific tables in Express? Perhaps I could give them an ID or something. My goal is to create CSS specific id’s to target things Express can’t currently do. Say for example I’d like to apply a top and bottom border to a table without it going all the way around.
I’ve looked through the code and haven’t seen anything table specific.
I know nothing about Express so perhaps this doesn’t apply but when you place an any element on the FW page it already has an id (item1, mytable etc.). So just create a tag style:
table#thisismytable
That will target only a table with the name (id) “thisismytable”.
Todd
On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Dan J wrote:
Is there a way to target specific tables in Express? Perhaps I could give them an ID or something.
Nah, doesn’t seem to do that in my source code here. I figured it’d be like Pro where you gave it an Item name and it put it as it’s DIV Id. Even the Pro version doesn’t do this with table output.
I’d be interested in seeing some actual Express made websites. Anybody have any?
Just to add to my previous post, it doesn’t look like there is a way to target specific tables using table ID’s because you can’t do table ID’s in Freeway 5 Express or Pro.
The only way to get them to work is if you did all the work manually post-Freeway.
When you refer to tables I assume you mean table based items. These
don’t have IDs in Express or Pro because Freeway will change the
output depending on the layout. Some of these may be tables in their
own right, others may be table cells with other table based items
making up some other cells and then some empty cells around them to
make up the table (which will always need to be rectangular).
This means that the only options available for table based items are
those that are available in the Inspector palette. Express has a
reduced set of those in Pro so things like border top and bottom are
not available.
If you are referring to actual tables (with cells and rows) then you
can use the Item>Extended dialog to add in any attributes you like.
You can then use the method Todd mentioned previously to add styling
to them.
I hope this helps,
Joe
On 28 Aug 2008, at 01:10, Dan J wrote:
Just to add to my previous post, it doesn’t look like there is a way
to target specific tables using table ID’s because you can’t do
table ID’s in Freeway 5 Express or Pro.
The only way to get them to work is if you did all the work manually
post-Freeway.
Sometime around 27/8/08 (at 17:53 -0400) Dan J said:
Any help or a simple “No” would suffice.
I think the answer is, unfortunately, no.
If I’m not mistaken, Freeway Express creates table-based output;
there’s no option for producing layered content. And if this is the
case, you can’t produce distinct ‘div’ elements that can be addressed
by ID.
Or maybe I’m wrong? I should stop working for a bit and chill out…
You can apply an ID to a table (rows and columns) in Express using the Extended menu but not through using tabled HTML items. I’m so use to Pro that this Express was making my head spin.
Don’t take too long of a break Keith, people will miss you helping out.
