htmltablewidth( function

htmltablewidth(

HTMLTABLE

)

The htmltablewidth( function calculates the width (number of columns) in an HTML table.

Parameters

This function has one parameter:

htmltable – the text containing the HTML table.

Description

This function calculates the width (number of columns) in an HTML table. It assumes that the table is a regular matrix (no colspan tags) and that all of the rows have the same number of columns as the top row in the table.

htmltablewidth("<tr><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
    <tr><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
    <tr><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
    <tr><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
    <tr><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>") ☞ 3

Use the htmltableheight( function to calculate the number of rows in a table.

Note: This function is equivalent to:

tagcount(tagdata(thetable,"<tr","</tr>",1),"<td","</td>")

See Also

HTML Export -- custom exports into an HTML file.
htmlarraytable -- generates an HTML table from an arrray.
htmldatamerge -- uses a template to generate HTML you want from a database.
htmldatatable -- generates an HTML table from selected data in the current database.
htmlextractimages -- extracts the image URLs from an HTML page.
htmlextractlinks -- extracts the links from an HTML page.
htmlformitemnames -- returns a list of form input elements (*INPUT* tags, etc.) within an HTML page.
htmltablecell( -- extracts the data from a cell in an HTML table.
htmltablecellexists( -- returns true if an HTML table contains the specified cell, false if it doesn't.
htmltablecellraw( -- extracts the data from a cell in an HTML table (including tags, if any).
htmltableheight( -- calculates the height (number of rows) in an HTML table.
htmltablerow( -- extracts the data from a row in an HTML table.
htmltablerowraw( -- extracts the raw data (including tags, if any) from a row in an HTML table.
htmltabletoarray -- converts an HTML table into a text array.
xtag( -- generates an HTML/XML tag.

History

Version	Status	Notes
10.0	No Change	Carried over from Panorama 6.0.