Comments | eveningsky: Icon Table Generator

angelamaria in eveningsky

Icon Table Generator

Apr 16, 2006 22:52

I've been wanting to put the LJ icons I create in table-format posting for some time now, but couldn't really be bothered with writing up tables again and again or copy-pasting groups of cells or something. I'm lazy that way. ;) So I ended up getting into geek mode for a few hours tonight and came up with this -- a script that takes a (preset or ( Read more... )

!resources, !icon table generator

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terra April 16 2006, 17:38:06 UTC

You are my hero, Angela! This is wonderful.

angelamaria April 17 2006, 00:36:50 UTC

Hee! Glad you like it, Alex! ♥

belladee_icons April 22 2006, 13:11:45 UTC

This is so amazing; thank you so much for making it!

angelamaria April 22 2006, 14:50:23 UTC

I'm glad you find it useful! :) ♥

miss_newyork May 19 2006, 07:13:21 UTC

hi there, I have a quite technical question about your script: I've been using my own generator for a while, which works perfectly with the way I save my icons (even less work :), but I just can't seem to figure out how to add that second row with the numbers. Right now I had to put the number and the icon in one cell to make it work. I'm sure it is completely easy, but I managed to create infinite loops all the time :( Can you help me out, please? Thanks!

angelamaria May 19 2006, 07:57:48 UTC

Hello :)

What do you mean by "second row with the numbers"? You mean, how to automatically generate the numbers from how many images you enter in the form?

miss_newyork May 19 2006, 08:18:48 UTC

wow, this is really hard to explain... :) and I just realized that you're not even using tables for your generator but DIVs. I really have to look into that.

Anyway, in case you do know the trick anyway, I wrote down the code I'm talking about:

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angelamaria May 19 2006, 08:29:26 UTC

Oh, I'm also using tables for some of the templates, but I prefer divs since it's liquid and how many images/icons per row would then depend on how big the screen size of the visitor would be. :) The tables are there in case other people prefer using tables/having static columns of icons.

Hmm. I can't exactly tell how you've implemented your generator through the HTML output, although I believe one of my templates have that sort of layout. What happens in my script, though, is that the "body" contains not just one row of cells but two rows -- one row first for the numbers and another row for the images. :) The number of icons (for the number of the icon) is handled by a counter variable and incremented each time an icon is "placed" in the resulting HTML, not after EACH icon; each row in my template could have one, two, three, etc number of icons (as opposed to just one).

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verylisa May 27 2006, 02:40:00 UTC

What a lovely table generator! I haven't used one before, but will try it out with my next batch of icons. Thank you for making it. :)

angelamaria May 27 2006, 07:35:10 UTC

Glad you like it! :D

krysjez June 21 2006, 04:51:47 UTC

I love you.

angelamaria June 21 2006, 05:38:02 UTC

Thank you. :D

krysjez June 21 2006, 08:35:20 UTC

How long did it take for you to code it, by the way?

angelamaria June 21 2006, 12:51:23 UTC

Around 2-3 hours all in all -- script itself, included "templates", layout of the page, JS, and a bit of testing. :)