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hmmm

 

intersting never had to tackle this one...

 

have a look at styling colgroups (don't know if that will work) otherwise you'll have to give each cell a class of col1, col2 etc. and use some js like so

 


<table border="1">
<tr>
<td class="col1" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">1</td>
<td class="col2" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">2</td>
<td class="co3" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">3</td>
<td class="col4" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="col1" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">1</td>
<td class="col2" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">2</td>
<td class="co3" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">3</td>
<td class="col4" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">4</td>
</tr>
</table>

 

and this js

 


function highlight(el)
{
var tds	=	document.getElementsByTagName('td');
for(var i=0;i<tds.length;i++)
{
  if	(tds[i].className == el.classname)
  {
   tds[i].style.background 		= '#666';
  }
}
return;
}

function defaultbg(el)
{
var tds	=	document.getElementsByTagName('td');
for(var i=0;i<tds.length;i++)
{
  if	(tds[i].className == el.classname)
  {
   tds[i].style.background 		= '#fff';
  }
}
return;
}

 

try that modify it so that you background colors are correct - you will need to add another if statment to dectect if the row is even or odd and apply the correct bg to that...

hmmm

 

intersting never had to tackle this one...

 

have a look at styling colgroups (don't know if that will work) otherwise you'll have to give each cell a class of col1, col2 etc. and use some js like so

 


<table border="1">
<tr>
<td class="col1" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">1</td>
<td class="col2" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">2</td>
<td class="co3" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">3</td>
<td class="col4" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="col1" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">1</td>
<td class="col2" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">2</td>
<td class="co3" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">3</td>
<td class="col4" onmouseover="highlight(this);" onmouseout"defaultbg(this);">4</td>
</tr>
</table>

 

and this js

 


function highlight(el)
{
var tds	=	document.getElementsByTagName('td');
for(var i=0;i<tds.length;i++)
{
  if	(tds[i].className == el.classname)
  {
   tds[i].style.background 		= '#666';
  }
}
return;
}

function defaultbg(el)
{
var tds	=	document.getElementsByTagName('td');
for(var i=0;i<tds.length;i++)
{
  if	(tds[i].className == el.classname)
  {
   tds[i].style.background 		= '#fff';
  }
}
return;
}

 

try that modify it so that you background colors are correct - you will need to add another if statment to dectect if the row is even or odd and apply the correct bg to that...

 

Thanks for the response! I'll play with this code today and see what I can't come up with. I'm with you though, I've never seen this one done (except in the screenshot I took).

You suggestion colgroups (Which I had never heard of) led me to more google searches. I thus found the following solution

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
.cur_row {
color: #000;
background: #FFE3B3;
}

.cur_col {
color: #000;
background: #FFF9B5;
}

.cur_cell {
color: #000;
background: #FDC743;
}
</style>
<script type="application/javascript">
window.onload=function()
{
    init();
}

function init()
{
    var table=document.getElementById('highlight');

    function highlight(row, col, state)
    {
        for(var i=0; i<table.rows.length; i++)
        {
            if(state=='off')
            {
                for(var j=0; j<table.rows[i].cells.length; j++)
                {
                    table.rows[i].cells[j].className='';
                }
            }

            if(state=='on')
            {
                table.rows[i].cells[col].className='cur_col';
            }
        }

        for(var i=0; i<table.rows[row].cells.length; i++)
        {
            if(state=='on')
            {
                table.rows[row].cells[i].className='cur_row';
                table.rows[row].cells[col].className='cur_cell';
            }
        }
    }
    // end function highlight

    // detect cursor position
    for(var i=0; i<table.rows.length; i++)
    {
        table.rows[i].row_index=i;
        for(var j=0; j<table.rows[i].cells.length; j++)
        {
            table.rows[i].cells[j].column_index=j;
            table.rows[i].cells[j].onmouseover=function()
            {
                highlight(this.parentNode.row_index, this.column_index, 'on');
            }
            table.rows[i].cells[j].onmouseout=function()
            {
                highlight(this.parentNode.row_index, this.column_index, 'off');
            }
        }
    }
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" id="highlight">
<tr>
       <td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
       <td>Row 1, Column 2</td>
       <td>Row 1, Column 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
       <td>Row 2, Column 1</td>
       <td>Row 2, Column 2</td>
       <td>Row 2, Column 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
       <td>Row 3, Column 1</td>
       <td>Row 3, Column 2</td>
       <td>Row 3, Column 3</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Taken from http://forums.htmlhelp.com/lofiversion/index.php/t2055.html (just dropped into a nice document so people could copy/paste)

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