…or, in this case, downwards and sideways (sort of)…
After staying up quite late with my table issue last night, it turned out that I was not dynamically adding rows to the table, but the div itself, which is why the rows were showing up after the table element, and why I couldn’t get rid the the rows afterwards without wiping everything out of the div. I was off by ONE line of code. It’s always the way!
Despite my 5 hours of sleep, everything was just ducky. In fact, thanks to figuring that issue out, I was able to easily tackle our afternoon assignment. We had to take a JSON file, convert it, then use a dropdown to have the user select out an object to create a table dynamically from the file with the information on this object. I was so excited when I managed to spit out a very nice table listing field headings all the way across. I even used Bootstrap to make the table look attractive. There was only one problem…
Pam needs to learn to read.
The table was supposed to read SIDEWAYS!
The headings were to be in the left hand column and the information in the next column. Logically, this makes perfect sense, as we were only calling up one record row of information per object. I wasn’t the only one to make this mistake. Our instructor kept telling us the issue was “simple to figure out” and “much easier” than what we had been doing. However, after your brain has been hard-wired to making a table a certain way ALL AFTERNOON it’s tough to completely turn around to figure out how to literally “turn around” the table. I couldn’t do it. I was going to stay later to figure it out, but I really need my sleep this evening. I figure I can tackle it in the morning before we get started on our usual Friday project.
You watch…sideways tables will be the main project feature tomorrow!
Where’s the Advil???