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my.shabby.sheep@gmail.com - 30 Aug 2007 20:43 GMT

Hi,
I want to do the following. I want to make a table column invisible
to the screen, but I still want to be able to get the innertext that
would have been stored in the cell for certain operations. What would
be the best way to do this.
I currently added an invisible attribute to the column tag. Please
help

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Joe Attardi - 30 Aug 2007 20:49 GMT

> I want to do the following. I want to make a table column invisible
> to the screen, but I still want to be able to get the innertext that
> would have been stored in the cell for certain operations. What would
> be the best way to do this.
> I currently added an invisible attribute to the column tag. Please
> help

This is more of a CSS solution than JavaScript, but you could set the
style to "display: none". That would hide the column from the screen but
it would still exist in the DOM.

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my.shabby.sheep@gmail.com - 30 Aug 2007 21:01 GMT

> my.shabby.sh...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I want to do the following. I want to make a table column invisible
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> Joe Attardi
> jatta...@gmail.com

Thats not a bad idea but I not to familiar with style sheets. Since
in a table of 5 columns only one would be invisible how would I do
that. Here is the code for the jsp page.
</script>
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin: 1em;
margin-top:.5em;
}
#reportPane {
width: 100%;
}
#histBox table { overflow: auto; }
#buttonTable {
margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body onload="init()" onkeydown="doKey()">
<fieldset id="histBox" >
<legend>Select version(s):</legend>
<div id="histories" class="tableContainer">
<t:newTable model='<%=
pageContext.findAttribute("histories") %>' key="RSN" multiple="true">
<t:column name="user.name" label="User"/>
<t:column name="type" label="Report Type"/>
<t:column name="date" label="Update Time" format="MM/
dd/yyyy kk:mm"/>
<t:column name="netBodyChars" label="Chars Changed"
format="###,###" className="java.lang.Integer"/>
<t:column name="reportHTML" label="report"
invisible="true" />
</t:newTable>
</div>
</fieldset>

Thanks...

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Joe Attardi - 30 Aug 2007 21:46 GMT

> Thats not a bad idea but I not to familiar with style sheets. Since
> in a table of 5 columns only one would be invisible how would I do
> that.

I'm not sure what the JSP tag library is that you're using, and what
options the <t:column> tag gives you, but in straight HTML you can give
the <tr> a 'style' attribute, like
<tr style="display: none;"> ... </tr>

or define an 'invisible' CSS class:

.invisible { display: none; }

and give the <tr> a 'class' of 'invisible':

<tr class="invisible"> ... </tr>

Looks like you will have to work within the limitations of your JSP
taglib though.

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my.shabby.sheep@gmail.com - 31 Aug 2007 20:14 GMT

> my.shabby.sh...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Thats not a bad idea but I not to familiar with style sheets. Since
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
> Joe Attardi
> jatta...@gmail.com

Thanks for your help. I tried your method and it works ok, but is
there a way for the row to not only be not displayed, but to not
appear at all?
thanks...

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Randy Webb - 30 Aug 2007 22:36 GMT

my.shabby.sheep@gmail.com said the following on 8/30/2007 4:01 PM:

>> my.shabby.sh...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I want to do the following. I want to make a table column invisible
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>> it would still exist in the DOM.
> Thats not a bad idea but I not to familiar with style sheets.

comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets

For the Usenet impaired:
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http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets/topics
?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8>

> Since in a table of 5 columns only one would be invisible how would I do
> that. Here is the code for the jsp page.

Don't post your server side JSP code, post the resulting HTML/Script/CSS
generated by the JSP code.

> </script>

I hope that isn't the first line of code your JSP produces.

> <style type="text/css">

I thought you weren't familiar with styles?

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