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Rendering HTML Table borders in JEditorPane
I'm using a JEditorPane to render HTML for the purposes of printing.
It works very well except I cannot render borders for tables. I haven't been able to find any bugs in the Sun bug database related to this issue and I'm wondering if I'm just doing something wrong. I've tried using both styles (AKA border-width: 3px;) and just <table border=3>. A normal browser renders the tables correctly in both cases. Thanks for any help/advice you can give. |
Re: Rendering HTML Table borders in JEditorPane
Jason Cavett wrote:
>I'm using a JEditorPane to render HTML for the purposes of printing. >It works very well except I cannot render borders for tables. I >haven't been able to find any bugs in the Sun bug database related to >this issue and I'm wondering if I'm just doing something wrong. I've >tried using both styles (AKA border-width: 3px;) and just <table >border=3>. That HTML is not well-formed. Try this instead: <html> <body> <table border='3'> <tr> <td>R1-C1</td> <td>R1-C2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>R2-C1</td> <td>R2-C2</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> >A normal browser .. What is 'a normal browser'? I am not sure what that means 'in your neck o' the woods', but I feel quite confident in saying that JEditorPane is no 'normal browser - it is no kind of browser at all'. All it is good for, is rendering simple, valid (well-formed) HTML controlled by you. >..renders the tables correctly in both cases. At one time, 50% of the enormous code of IE was said to be for correcting crappy HTML. I would not be surprised if 20-40%+ of the code of other major UAs is much the same. JEP has none (or close enough to say as much) of that. >Thanks for any help/advice you can give. Validate, validate, validate. Then KISS. -- Andrew Thompson http://www.athompson.info/andrew/ Message posted via http://www.javakb.com |
Re: Rendering HTML Table borders in JEditorPane
On Oct 8, 1:07 pm, "Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe> wrote:
> Jason Cavett wrote: > >I'm using a JEditorPane to render HTML for the purposes of printing. > >It works very well except I cannot render borders for tables. I > >haven't been able to find any bugs in the Sun bug database related to > >this issue and I'm wondering if I'm just doing something wrong. I've > >tried using both styles (AKA border-width: 3px;) and just <table > >border=3>. > > That HTML is not well-formed. Try this instead: > > <html> > <body> > <table border='3'> > <tr> > <td>R1-C1</td> > <td>R1-C2</td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td>R2-C1</td> > <td>R2-C2</td> > </tr> > </table> > </body> > </html> > > >A normal browser .. > > What is 'a normal browser'? I am not sure what that > means 'in your neck o' the woods', but I feel quite > confident in saying that JEditorPane is no 'normal > browser - it is no kind of browser at all'. All it is > good for, is rendering simple, valid (well-formed) > HTML controlled by you. > > >..renders the tables correctly in both cases. > > At one time, 50% of the enormous code of IE > was said to be for correcting crappy HTML. I > would not be surprised if 20-40%+ of the code of > other major UAs is much the same. JEP has > none (or close enough to say as much) of that. > > >Thanks for any help/advice you can give. > > Validate, validate, validate. Then KISS. > > -- > Andrew Thompsonhttp://www.athompson.info/andrew/ > > Message posted viahttp://www.javakb.com 1. Not sure what HTML you're talking about? I didn't really post any in my message other than the <table> tag and I wasn't going for well- formed. I was just showing what I had tried. When I actually write my application I use well-formed, full HTML (per your example). 2. Normal browser = IE, Firefox, Safari - the three I tested. Yes, I realize a JEditorPane is not a browser but since I'm only concerned about rendering HTML, it's all the same thing at the moment. 3. Okay...well...either way IE *does* render the table. JEP does not. I'm wondering if this is an actual problem or if there is something I completely missed (which, it doesn't appear I have since all the other HTML renders correctly). 4. Not sure what you mean by validate. And, the HTML is as simple as you can get - just one table. |
Re: Rendering HTML Table borders in JEditorPane
Jason Cavett wrote:
> 4. Not sure what you mean by validate. Presumably to submit the HTML to <http://validator.w3.org/> -- Lew |
Re: Rendering HTML Table borders in JEditorPane
Jason Cavett wrote:
>> >I'm using a JEditorPane to render HTML for the purposes of printing. >> >It works very well except I cannot render borders for tables. ... >1. Not sure what HTML you're talking about? I didn't really post any >in my message other than the <table> tag ... Yes that* - let's move on.. >3. Okay...well...either way IE *does* render the table. JEP does >not. ... Huhh. I tried that exact HTML above, in a JEP using Java 1.6. Here is a screenshot of the result. <http://www.physci.org/test/screenshot/tableborderinjep.png> That looks like a border to me. Are you seeing something different on your system? >4. Not sure what you mean by validate. ... * I am relatively (narrowly) focused on validation at the moment. ;-) -- Andrew Thompson http://www.athompson.info/andrew/ Message posted via JavaKB.com http://www.javakb.com/Uwe/Forums.asp...neral/200710/1 |
Re: Rendering HTML Table borders in JEditorPane
On Oct 9, 10:22 am, "Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe> wrote:
> Jason Cavett wrote: > >> >I'm using a JEditorPane to render HTML for the purposes of printing. > >> >It works very well except I cannot render borders for tables. > .. > >1. Not sure what HTML you're talking about? I didn't really post any > >in my message other than the <table> tag ... > > Yes that* - let's move on.. > > >3. Okay...well...either way IE *does* render the table. JEP does > >not. ... > > Huhh. > > I tried that exact HTML above, in a JEP using > Java 1.6. Here is a screenshot of the result. > <http://www.physci.org/test/screenshot/tableborderinjep.png> > That looks like a border to me. Are you seeing > something different on your system? > > >4. Not sure what you mean by validate. ... > > * I am relatively (narrowly) focused on validation > at the moment. ;-) > > -- > Andrew Thompsonhttp://www.athompson.info/andrew/ > > Message posted via JavaKB.comhttp://www.javakb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/java-general/200710/1 Well, I'm using Java 5 (forgot to mention that) so if it works on 6, that won't help. Either way, I think I'm not going to worry about it. The customer likes how it looks as is. |
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