From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2002-08-14T04:50:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Building tables dynamically with CGI class

junderdown@msn.com (Jason Underdown) writes:

> I am fully aware of CGI#th.  Maybe I didn't explain myself well
> enough.  What I want to be able to do is something like the following
> code (which doesn't work):
> 
> cgi.table('border'=>'1') {
>    cgi.tr { cgi.th{"ID"} + cgi.th{"First"} + cgi.th{"Last"} } +
>    rows.collect { |row|
>       cgi.tr {
>          row.collect { |item|
>             cgi.td { item }
>          }
>       }
>    }
> }
> 
> My previous code posting works, but notice that since the header row
> gets generated by the same loop which creates the table body, the
> CGI#td method is used to generate the header cells instead of CGI#th.

Change

>          row.collect { |item|
>             cgi.td { item }
>          }

to

>          row.collect { |item|
>             cgi.td { item }
>          }.join("\n")

because the value of the block needs to be a single string.

Jim
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