numbered table rows?

[Colonel Sanders]

I want to change the layout of my music page on my web-site.

I want the end result to look something like:

1. artist track album year
2. artist track album year

I'm considering using a table so that the artist/track/album/other stuff all lines up. But I want each track to be numbered.

I could easily do that with tables like so:

1	artist	track
2	artist....	track

But the problem with how I did that is if I removed track 1 from the list, I'd have the track number for every track on my list...

Currently my music page uses an ordered list so I can add/remove tracks and the numbering will still be proper, but I don't know how to make an orderd list work with a table.

Any suggestions?

TIA, L J

[Force Flow]

Could you embed an excel worksheet? That has row numbers on the left that don't get messed up when you delete entries.

[mairving]

Ordered list with a table would just be:
<TD>
<OL>
<LI>
</LI>
</OL>
</TD>

[Colonel Sanders]

Mairving, what you've posted looks like it would place the whole ordered list inside a cell, but I want to find a way to number the rows.

Force flow, I lack excel. I do have OpenOffice and can use that to make a spread-sheet though, woudl that do me any good?

Is there any way to do this with CSS?

L J

[Force Flow]

CSS deals more with GUI features. PHP, on the other hand, might be able to do it.

Or, what you could do something like this:

PHP Code:

<table border="1" width="43%">
  <tr>
    <td width="4%" valign="top">
      <table border="1" width="1%">
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">1</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">3</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">4</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">5</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">6</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">7</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">8</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">9</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">10</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </td>
    <td width="96%" valign="top">
      <table border="1" width="100%">
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">this song</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">another song</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">still another song</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">and so on</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">etc</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">etc</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table> 


  

    

      

        

          
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2
        
        

          
3
        
        

          
4
        
        

          
5
        
        

          
6
        
        

          
7
        
        

          
8
        
        

          
9
        
        

          
10
        
      
    
    

      

        

          
this song
        
        

          
another song
        
        

          
still another song
        
        

          
and so on
        
        

          
etc
        
        

          
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[Force Flow]

Sorry for the post here, but I'm having problems with the edit button.

Anyway, what this table does is keep the numbered list seperate from the song list, so if you delete a cell with the song in it, they just shift up and the numbered column remains untouched.

[Colonel Sanders]

Force Flow, thats an excellent idea and looks like it will be the easiest way to update my music page. Thanks!

Now another question, 91 tracks, 5 fields each, that could take a long time to type in again... this is probably a question for a different subject, but does anyone have any idea of how I could make(or acquire) a script that would at least read the tags and output information in the different fields to say at least a standard text file? If not, just more typing practice...

L J

[Force Flow]

Is it just text on your webpage, or is the info in tables?

[Colonel Sanders]

Soon to be info in tables.

[glc]

A thought - if you are using Excel or Open Office, just use the builtin save as HTML function, see what you wind up with. If it works for you, it should be easy enough to update your spreadsheet, save as HTML again, touch up your code, and just upload it when you make changes.