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DavidMcFadyen
Qrew Member
6 years ago

Trouble creating a table (not a quick base table) using a formula rich text field

Hello, I have successfully coded a rich text field to display data in the form of a table with no borders. However, when the field displays on the form in Quick Base, there is a ton of white space ...
Formulas and functions
Tables and fields
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DavidMcFadyen
Qrew Member
6 years ago
Austin,

Thanks for the tip. I am not trained in html so I just learn as I go. Are you saying to remove the line breaks from the code and that will fix it? How can you tell that there are 10 line breaks before the code?

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David McFadyen
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DavidMcFadyen
Qrew Member
6 years ago
Austin,

Your suggestion worked. Thanks very much.

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    AustinK
    Qrew Commander
    6 years ago
    The way I could tell was I had to dive into it via the Chrome developer menu. I can show you a screenshot of what your code looked like in the dom. It won't be as valuable as if I could show you how to get there exactly but hopefully it helps some.

    What I did was press F12 in chrome to open the dev menu and go to the Elements tab. You can hover over each line of html here and Chrome will highlight where it is used on the screen if it is visible to you. I hovered and checked until I found the container for all the fields on the form (the div has an ID of "mainBodyDiv".) Then rinse and repeat until you are down to the exact field you need.


    There are another roughly 6+ layers above this that I had to go through to get here. You can see how your "<table cellspacing=30" code is beginning at the bottom. For some reason Quick Base just extracted all of your line breaks and put them above it.