[Greasemonkey] Split a table's TRs into two?

JimD Jim at keeliegirl.dyndns.org
Wed May 3 23:43:57 EDT 2006


bounce at johnhorner.nu wrote:
> I have to use an interface with lots of sideways scrolling. This is 
> because the content's in a table and the table has lots of long, 
> unsplittable content in the cells.
> 
> Is it going to be feasible in GM to rewrite the table entirely so that 
> every entry is on two rows? In other words, ignoring header problems, is 
> it feasible to take this table
> 
> |foo1|bar1|baz1|bax1|
> |foo2|bar2|baz2|bax2|
> 
> and change it to:
> 
> |foo1|bar1|
> |baz1|bax1|
> |foo2|bar2|
> |baz2|bax2|
> 
> using GM? Any pointers, script examples? TIA.
> 
> BTW, there are an even number of cells in each row.
> 

Have you ever used the javascript lib sorttable?  It makes a table 
sortable without a server round-trip.  It actually re-writes all the 
rows of the table.  It could be a good starting point for you.

http://kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/

Jim
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