Question for Dave Lee

[mattman63]

Hi, Dave,

I've been gone a while, but I'm back on Flare again now, and I'd like to revisit one of my previous questions. In answer to a problem I was having with tables you said this:


To be clear, I'm talking about having the table at the top of the topic (above the headings or text), so the table appears in frame #1 (placed at the bottom), and the topic text that follows it flows into frame #2 (placed at the top).

Anyway, what I'm suggesting should work ok if the table can be contained in a fixed size container - i.e. the table never exceeds a certain size (but can be smaller).
This is possible by using a div tag as a container for the table, where the div size matches the frame size.

I had a quick test, and it works ok for me. What I did...

1) Set up a page layout (first page) with two body frames; the bottom frame #1 flowing into frame #2 above it.
2) I set the height of frame #1 to 4 inches.
3) I added a div class to my stylesheet with the properties:

div.box
{
height: 4 in;
}

4) I added a table at the top of my topic, and placed it inside a div.box tag.

It worked fine for me - the table appeared in frame #1, and the text started in frame #2 above the table.


Okay, I completed steps 1-3 and it looks like this will work great for me. However, being such a newbie, I don't know how to place a table in a div.box tag. Exactly how do you do step #4?

[NorthEast]

To put it inside a div - select the table and use Format > Group (or just press Tab), and from the list select the div class you've set up (e.g. div.box).

[mattman63]

Alrighty...there's a note just above the table that never changes; I've made a snippet of it. I want to put both the note and the table in the div.box. However, Flare will not let me select them both, and when I try to select Format>Group, Group is grayed. What am I doing wrong?

[mattman63]

Hey, never mind, Dave. I just went ahead and built the document as it is, and it works fine WITHOUT being in a div.box. Howzabout that? It looks GREAT!

[NorthEast]

Alrighty...there's a note just above the table that never changes; I've made a snippet of it. I want to put both the note and the table in the div.box. However, Flare will not let me select them both, and when I try to select Format>Group, Group is grayed. What am I doing wrong?

Flare's editor is a bit funny - it sometimes doesn't let you apply a group (or drop-down) to what you've got selected for no apparent reason.
If it does that, just apply the group to the table (or anything). Once you've created the div, then press enter inside the div to add a new paragraph, and then you can copy and paste anything else inside.

Hey, never mind, Dave. I just went ahead and built the document as it is, and it works fine WITHOUT being in a div.box. Howzabout that? It looks GREAT!

That's great, but bear in mind that'll work as long as the table section is just the right size to fill the frame. The idea of the div box was to fix the size of the table section, so if it was shorter than the height of the frame then you wouldn't get the text that follows the table also appearing in the frame.

[mattman63]

It should work then. The table size never changes, and neither does the note. It will always fit the frame exactly. Thanks so much for your help - I was a bit worried about that problem, but it's solved now.

I'm sure I'll be back on here soon with another problem for you guys to solve.