How to make a table in a content item?

mmm, we have items,
-- an item is a row in the table,
if want more columns
-- you create a new field
-- and add it to the template,
so this way you will have the same effect, or am i missing something ?

I forgot to mention... I am talking of the end-user dealing with the new-item-creation. No matter if he is in backend or frontend. Usually the frontend-user is an average "techi-guy". So, he don´t want or he is not able to create a typical product-specs-table in a WYSIWYG editor.

Don´t we all try to avoid those situations... and its the whole basic idea of a CMS to simplify and unify the data-input. The major drawback of Joomla! IMHO. Its not really content or data-managemant... its HTML-articles editing :roll:

Did someone figure out how to build a table?

The problem with adding fields to get more columns is that when one puts the fields in <td> tags there is no way to give these tags a different class to apply e.g. a differnet width to each of these <td>s.

now i think you speak of default template which is tabular in category view, right?

you want to have CSS class names for the cells containing the field data, right?

Dont know if we are on the same road ...

I need the same field (plugin) that was pointed out in the first post. With that the "Add value" button would add a new table row, not just a new cell like a text field does.

Right now I have to build a table with the field type "text" surrounded by "Opening tag: <td>" and its closing tag. For each row I need a different new field like row1, row 2, ... The user must hit "Add value" to get a new cell (column) in a row. But with that he can easily screw the table by putting a different amount of cells in each row.

What we need is a field type (plugin) that makes it easy for website editors to enter data into a table.

The code I use for building a table out of text fields is this:

So you speak of a new field e.g. a text field that creates "tabled" data, but you don't want to use a textarea field with a WYSIWYG editor, because you want a simpler interface ?