Re: How can I export a table to HTML with header and footers

[Raghavendra Nyshadham <raghnysh@gmail.com>]

On 2024-10-19 02:08 +05:30, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:

> But back to the main question ... is it somehow possible to generate
> the <tfoot> footer elements ...
> 
> <table id="example" class="cell-border hover compact" width="100%">
> 
> <thead>
>      <tr>
>        <th>Name</th>
>        <th>Position</th>
>        <th>Office</th>
>      </tr>
>    </thead>
>    <tbody>
>      <tr>
>        <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
>        <td>System Architect</td>
>        <td>Edinburgh</td>
>      </tr>
>      <tr>
>        <td>Ashton Cox</td>
>        <td>Technical Author</td>
>        <td>San Francisco</td>
>      </tr>
>    </tbody>
>    <tfoot>
>      <tr>
>        <th>Name</th>
>        <th>Position</th>
>        <th>Office</th>
>      </tr>
>    </tfoot> 
> </table>

The Org mode HTML exporter does not seem to provide any facility for
using table footers.  You can use the export-filter mechanism of Org
mode to add the footer, but in this case it is simpler to use the
columns.footer option of DataTables, as in the following sample.

#+title: Org Tables to DataTables
#+html_doctype: html5
#+html_head: <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js"></script>
#+html_head: <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/2.1.8/js/dataTables.min.js"></script>
#+html_head: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/2.1.8/css/dataTables.dataTables.min.css" />
#+html_head:<script>$(document).ready(function () {$('#example').DataTable({columns: [{footer: 'Name'}, {footer: 'Position'}, {footer: 'Office'}]});});</script>
#+html_head: <script>$(document).ready(function () {$('#another-example').DataTable({lengthMenu: [3, {label: 'All', value: -1}]});});</script>

This is an example table.

#+attr_html: :id example :class cell-border hover compact :width 100%
| Name        | Position         | Office        |
|-------------+------------------+---------------|
| Tiger Nixon | System Architect | Edinburgh     |
| Ashton Cox  | Technical Author | San Francisco |

------------------------------------------------------------

This is another example table.

#+attr_html: :id another-example :class display
| Author            | Title                   | Shelf |
|-------------------+-------------------------+-------|
| Capote, Truman    | In cold blood           | D3B   |
| Chandler, Raymond | The high window         | D3B   |
| Dai, Mamang       | The legends of Pensam   | D3B   |
| Desai, Kiran      | The inheritance of loss | D3B   |
| Farrell, J. G.    | The hill station        | C1B   |