Re: Formatting Information in header? Gridlines in Excel

Both...If you send an HTML file with Excel headers, Excel will open up and "translate" the HTML tables into the grid of the Excel spreadsheet. ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bradwell" <SteveB@compxnet.com> To: "'Jay Blanchard'" <jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:05 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Formatting Information in header? Gridlines in Excel > This is intriguing me, are you opening up excel in a browser window or just > printing out html tables?? I am confused. > > Thanks, > Steve. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com] > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 9:54 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Formatting Information in header? Gridlines in Excel > > > [snip] > Are you actually sending an excell file, or just data that you expect excell > to format? If your sending a file, then you have to create the grid lines > there. These are HTTP headers that you are talking about, they wouldn't have > any control over excell data. > [/snip] > > Nope, it's not an Excel file. It is a PHP file imitating an Excel file, > calling data from the DB and generating the worksheet on-the-fly. I want the > gridlines to display and was hoping that there was something I could put in > the PHP page to make sure that this happens. I am delivering HTML table(s) > to Excel for parsing, which it does just fine....uh oh...I feel an idea > coming on....let me try adding a border="1" to the table tag....that works! > > Thanks for wording it differently, I saw it in a different light and the > answer cam upon me like a Monday morning lightning strike. > > Jay Blanchard > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >