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Now, remember I told you that I would be doing each section in a different gradcolor for ease of identifying it for the purpose of this tute. I will be doing sections B-H in stages and showing you these pages as a work in progress -- in those stages. The .txt files will be available for print. You will see that when I code B-H, that everything will be in one straight line -- GOING STRAIGHT DOWN the page. I never put my "holding" table on the page until I have finished all my colored tables. I use 2 break tags to keep these sections apart. It makes viewing them easier. Those break tags, used as my guide, will be removed and that is where the code for my holding table(s) will go. Sections B and C are each done using only one table. BUT -- now I will talk about section B. This is the first section that I need to deal in SUB-sections. I cannot do section D in just one table. For simplification, there are only stacked tables within D. BUT, they belong to only the D section. I will need to connect those 3 tables to complete section D. I will do that BEFORE I move on to section E. This is where a coder can get so confused. This is what I do to clarify complicated code. I will use 3 break tags to separate the colored tables within section D. If I see 3 break tags -- I will know that is a sub-section and not a section. I write my tables in D. I separate them with 3 break tags. I view the piece to check my work. I go back to edit my code. I now will remove those 3 break tags and join those 3 tables and complete section D. I am connecting only the colored tables within D here and they have NOTHING to do with any other section, yet. I will note in my code the end of section D. The following demonstrates how I do my SUB-sections. They are drawn in hot pink. I always do this before I sit down to do my code work. But, so as not to confuse you, I am just showing you this now. You can see why it has to be sub-sectioned. As you develop your skills, you will deal in sections that can have table within table within table. Imagine if you need to have those hot pink lines running vertically within as section. You are then doing a sub-sub-section. (Yes, there I use 4 break tags.) B will be in red, C in green, D in orange, E in yellow, F in orange, G in green and H in red. Ready? OK -- let's go at it!
Note that section "D" in the above shot is not finished yet. The tables are not put together yet for just that "D" section. I wanted to clearly demonstrate how I work holding tables in sub-sections. There are 3 tables stacked within this "D" section. The next shot will show how I removed those 3 break tags and put in their place the final holding table for the D section -- finishing that "D" section, BEFORE I go onto start "E" section.
Now, I have totally finished the holding table for the D section, as well as B and C being finished. The next page will start with E. I will also do F, G and H, as they are the mirror to B, C and D. |
