[Docutils-users] Re: right aligned cell contents in a reST table converted to HTML

[Felix W. <Fel...@gm...>]

Remco Boerma wrote:

> i've created a table in reST and parse it to HTML. now i want some of
> the cell's to be right alligned, instead of being left aligned.
>
> I cannot find a way to do settings some sort of properties of
> HTML,CSS, or something else.

First of all, sorry for the slow response time; I've been away for some
time.

Concerning your problem, I found the following solution:

1. Copy tools/stylesheets/default.css to a new file,
   e.g. new_stylesheet.css.

2. Add the following text at the end of new_stylesheet.css::

       .flushright {
         text-align: right;
       }

3. Make the paragraphs in the cells right-aligned by using the
   flushright class.  You need to prepend *every* paragraph to be
   right-aligned with the class directive::

       +---------------------+---------------------+
       |A paragraph of some  |.. class:: flushright|
       |normal text.         |                     |
       |                     |Right-aligned.       |
       |                     |                     |
       |                     |.. class:: flushright|
       |                     |                     |
       |                     |Another paragraph.   |
       +---------------------+---------------------+
       
4. Process the file with Docutils, using the new stylesheet file as
   stylesheet::

       rst2html.py --stylesheet-path=new_stylesheet.css cell_align.txt cell_align.html

However, this will not work with Docutils 0.3.5.  In trying to find this
solution I discovered a bug which is only fixed in the most current CVS
sources.  You can download a snapshot from
<http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docutils-snapshot.tgz>.

This solution is admittedly not very elegant.  I'm Cc'ing to
Doc...@li... -- maybe someone knows a better
way to align table cells.

There has been a thread about adding classes for table rows and columns,
which would allow easier customization via CSS.  See
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.docutils.devel/1825>.

-- 
Felix Wiemann -- http://www.ososo.de/