formatting

[alain dhaene]

Hi,

Is it possible to align numbers on the point of a float such as:

15.223
342.4457
12.48





instead of

15.223
342.4457
12.4878

thx,

Alain

[Frank Schummertz]

Re: formatting

alain dhaene schrieb:

[color=blue]
> Is it possible to align numbers on the point of a float such as:
>
> 15.223
> 342.4457
> 12.48[/color]

Easiest way would be to use http://php.net/sprintf for formatting the
numbers.

Frank

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[Markus Ernst]

Re: formatting

"alain dhaene" <a.dhaene@instr uct.be> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:407fa4c0$0 $429$a0ced6e1@n ews.skynet.be.. .[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to align numbers on the point of a float such as:
>
> 15.223
> 342.4457
> 12.48
>
> instead of
>
> 15.223
> 342.4457
> 12.4878[/color]

As HTML does not know tabulators you will have to specify a monospaced font
or put your output into <pre> </pre> tags. Then you have to figure out how
many figures the highest and the actual numbers have before the decimal
point, then you can add the difference in spaces.

HTH
Markus

[John Dunlop]

Re: formatting

alain dhaene wrote:
[color=blue]
> Is it possible to align numbers on the point of a float such as:
>
> 15.223
> 342.4457
> 12.48[/color]

For a webpage? Yes. There are a couple of options. Which is best
depends on your situation, which you haven't described.

Theoretically, if the data is columnar, you might use the char
attribute in conjunction with align="char"; in practice, however,
browser support probably isn't encouraging. In relation to
align="char", the spec says "[i]f a user agent doesn't support
character alignment, behavior in the presence of this value is
unspecified". Moreover, it goes on to say that "[u]ser agents are not
required to support [the char attribute]". See HTML4.01, sec. 11.3.2.

More logically -- and perhaps even more theoretically! -- you'd use
CSS2's text-align property with a value of ".". See CSS2, sec. 16.2.

Another possibility is to right align the numbers and pad out with
zeros -- padding with spaces won't work. ObPHP: sprintf has already
been mentioned:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php

The PRE element has been mentioned too. This marks the enclosed text
as preformatted.

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Jock