how to make tfoot render last?

[TigerCoder]

How do I make the tfoot tag render last in the html output?

[Vlad]

Hello TigerCoder,

According to the XHTML standard TFOOT section in tables should be rendered after THEAD and before TBODY.

Sincerely yours,
Vlad
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[TigerCoder]

That's true. Thanks for the info. For completeness, here is my solution:

In my case, I am using the RadGrid to generate HTML that I save to disk and then, I use a PDF server that I point at the URL so generating valid XHTML is not important to me.

The RadGrid seems to fix this in it's own PDF rendering but since I want to render full reports with lots of different kinds of output, this didn't fit for all the rest of the items I have to render.

I am using the footer to display the footnotes as a table should. Normally, I override the footer render method and write the footnote string to that cell like so:

//rgReport is my radgrid
//_sFootnotes is a string with my footnotes separated by html breaks
rgReport.ItemCreated += new GridItemEventHandler(rgReport_ItemCreated);

void rgReport_ItemCreated(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
    if(e.Item.ItemType == GridItemType.Footer)
    {
       e.Item.SetRenderMethodDelegate(new RenderMethod(GridFooterRenderMethod));
    }
}

private void GridFooterRenderMethod(HtmlTextWriter writer, Control ctl)
{
    // ctl is the footer row and the begin tag has been rendered at this point
    rgReport.FooterStyle.AddAttributesToRender(writer);
    TableCell tcFooter = new TableCell();
    tcFooter.ColumnSpan = rgReport.MasterTableView.Columns.Count;
    tcFooter.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(_sFootNotes));
    tcFooter.RenderControl(writer);
}

 

I solved the original problem that I had by setting showfooter to false and adding the footer to the grid's controls collection when I am rendering this way:

 

rgReport.ShowFooter = false;

rgReport.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(_sFootNotes));