A multi-page invoice table
An invoice table, laid out across as many pages as its lines need.
Columns measured from their cells
One parts list twice: four columns sharing the width equally, then the reference, the quantity and the price each as wide as their own widest cell and the description given everything they leave.
The same parts list laid out twice. In the first table the four columns share the width equally, so the references and the figures sit in far more room than they need while the descriptions wrap for want of it — the familiar look of a table nobody measured.
In the second, the reference, the quantity and the price are each as wide as their own widest cell, and the description is given everything they leave. The measuring is done in the font the cells will be drawn in, which is why it is right rather than nearly right, and it costs one setting per column.
What this example shows
- Column widths taken from the widest cell each column holds.
- One column left free, absorbing whatever the measured ones leave.
- Equal shares and measured widths compared on one page.
The code, in full
The same document is written twice, once in each language. Both files are shown in full, with the code coloured on the server, and can be copied in one click.
The document itself
The same document is written in each of these languages. Open the one you want to look at.
What this document weighs
| Before | 111,935 bytes |
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| Now | 41,485 bytes |
| Saved | 62.9 % |
Not one mark on the page changed. See every document measured.
Examples near this one
A cell's margin, border, inner space and background
What a cell can do with its own box: the margin, the border, the space inside, the background.
Coloured cell borders and fills
A cell's four sides in four different colours, and coloured fills told apart from coloured borders.
A self-paginating table
A long table handed over whole, deciding for itself where the pages break: its heading on top of every page, its footnote under every page, its grey grounds stated once for the whole table, and a note you draw under each page at the exact place the table reports.
Cells merged down the rows
A specification sheet whose cells are merged down the rows: each group named once beside all of its rows, with one note beside them; the thin lines stop at those cells' edges, and a note too long for the rows it covers makes them grow.
Pictures inside table cells
A catalogue whose first column is a picture rather than text: four pictures of very different sizes and proportions, each fitted whole and undistorted into the cell the table gives it and standing against a different corner of it, claiming no width from its column and no height from its row.