How to make a table in a content item?

Well,

yes combining a select field with one or 2 text fields would be a useful field.

Is it ok to do it with 3 fields?

Regards

hello

thanks for the interessting input... i've been on holidays, but i'm gonna try them soon and will tell if it worked

all the best, maya

To place fields more properly together you may want to change your template.

--> You could add php 'if' statement to check the field name being displayed and output some html.
--> Or just put them in a template position and change the html of the position

e.g.
Let's say you put your fields in position subtitle3:
--> You can add some html and put your fields in a html table row.
--> Or you could do this by using css.

All this provided you have html / css knowledge.

Regards

Always watched out for a matrix/grid field in Joomla CCKs or even Drupal. Do you know ExpressionEngine ? ... it has some impressive extensions for a similar purpose... take a look here, just for inspiration:

Matrix
pixelandtonic.com/matrix

Grid Lite
www.eec.ms/add-ons/grid-lite

mmm, if you edit a FLEXIcontent template will not have the same effect?

The FLEXIcontent template 'default' is already a table, with one row per item.

ggppdk wrote: mmm, if you edit a FLEXIcontent template will not have the same effect?

The FLEXIcontent template 'default' is already a table, with one row per item.

Yes, a custom template is a good start... but will remain "fixed" for the amount of cells/rows the user can input. Please, correct me if I am wrong here...

The most flexible solution would be a repeatable and extendable field, something the user can add/expand in vertical and horizontal direction...

just thinking loud

mmm, we have items,
-- an item is a row in the table,
if want more columns
-- you create a new field
-- and add it to the template,
so this way you will have the same effect, or am i missing something ?

I forgot to mention... I am talking of the end-user dealing with the new-item-creation. No matter if he is in backend or frontend. Usually the frontend-user is an average "techi-guy". So, he don´t want or he is not able to create a typical product-specs-table in a WYSIWYG editor.

Don´t we all try to avoid those situations... and its the whole basic idea of a CMS to simplify and unify the data-input. The major drawback of Joomla! IMHO. Its not really content or data-managemant... its HTML-articles editing :roll:

Did someone figure out how to build a table?

The problem with adding fields to get more columns is that when one puts the fields in <td> tags there is no way to give these tags a different class to apply e.g. a differnet width to each of these <td>s.

now i think you speak of default template which is tabular in category view, right?

you want to have CSS class names for the cells containing the field data, right?