Floating div element

[Maic Stohr]

In some cases we define a table with multiple rows, but we want to float the rows into columns, e.g. we have a label printing challenge. The user defines one or many labels in a row, an we want to print them in a 2-column page.

In HTML we would have the user to create a table with one column, many rows. And then put a <div style="width:50%;float: left"></div> around the table.

Of course, the user may already align all rows in 2 columns, but in our scenario the user effectively creates only one cell. And using a mail merge functionality, the rows are generated.

[Garry Yao]

Please make your feature request with more clear structural description.

[Maic Stohr]

Let's say we have added the following table with CKEditor:

<table>

<tr>

<td>Column 1</td>

</tr>

</table>

We use this input from the user and multiply each row using an input data set (in a kind of mass mail merge). As a result, we'll have the following table in HTML:

<table>

<tr>

<td>Row 1 Column 1</td>

</tr> <tr>

<td>Row 1 Column 2</td>

</tr> <tr>

<td>Row 2 Column 1</td>

</tr> <tr>

<td>Row 2 Column 2</td>

</tr>

</table>

Now, an user in fact wants to print labels on a 2-column paper like the following table:

<table>

<tr>

<td>Row 1 Column 1</td> <td>Row 1 Column 2</td>

</tr> <tr>

<td>Row 2 Column 1</td> <td>Row 2 Column 2</td>

</tr>

</table>

All we need is to define in a field in the table dialog which defines how many rows should be transposed into columns. To achieve we would use the initial table and just add a div element: <div style="width: 50%; float: left;"> <table>

<tr>

<td>Row 1 Column 1</td>

</tr> <tr>

<td>Row 1 Column 2</td>

</tr> <tr>

<td>Row 2 Column 1</td>

</tr> <tr>

<td>Row 2 Column 2</td>

</tr>

</table> </div>

So, we would need to add the number of columns like 1, 2, 3, 4 which will set width 100%, 50%, 33%, 25%...

I know this is a special case...we could extend the CKEditor code...I am happy to provide this, but I'd prefer if this would be included in the Editor...

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

This is a very special feature. If'll we ever have one like this it will do real transformation, because using floating divs completely lacks semantic.