Table formatting PDF icon size display tags

Thank you for the positive feedback and for your questions. Thanks as well for taking the time to post links to your example pages and the source text of your templates and shortcodes; very helpful.

It looks like you are using custom style and markup templates; is that right? If so, you can play with the CSS and HTML in the templates to get the results you need. I had a look at your example pages, and it looks like you have done some additional tuning since your original post. Regarding your questions:

1 how to have a smaller pdf icon
The example pages have a 16×16 icon (explicit width and height in the IMG tag) in a 30×30 table cell. It looks like this problem is solved.

2 how to set fixed column widths in the table as they vary
You can adjust the styles to get a left-justified table with fixed-width columns. Some of the styles must be explicit to override defaults in the WordPress style.css file. Try something like:

#[+selector+] {
    margin: 0;
    width: auto;
}

#[+selector+] .gallery-row {
 float: none;
 text-align: left;
 width: auto;
 }

3 how to add a header for the table for the columns
You can add column headers to the “Open:” section of your markup template. Try something like:

<table id='[+selector+]' class='gallery galleryid-[+id+] gallery-columns-[+columns+] gallery-size-[+size_class+]'>
<th class='gallery-row'>
<td>Document Title</td>
<td>Click to view file</td>
</th>

4 how to display the standard tags
I am not entirely sure what you mean by “standard tags” and what you want to display. From your shortcode text it looks like you are using the WordPress Categories (slug category) and Tags (slug post_tag) taxonomies to organize your documents; is that right? You can display the terms assigned to a document in any of your taxonomies; try something like [+terms:post_tag+] in your markup template, e.g.:

<td>
[+pdf:Title+]<br>
[+terms:post_tag+]
</td>

If I have not understood any of your questions, let me know. I will leave the topic unresolved until I hear back from you. Thanks for your interest in the plugin.

David Hi yes we did continue the work after the post using the styles and templates facility and the replies from other posts.
For my questions
1 Yes the icon is smaller but I don’t seem to be able to reduce the cell size – it seems stuck at 30 by 30.
2 The fixed width updates worked with a narrow table until…
3 I added a table header – I had to modify the code slightly as it had an additional cell at the beginning. The code is now like this – ‘<tr class=’gallery-row’><th>Document Title</th><th>Click icon to view file</th></tr>’ but adding the header made the table full page width! Also, ideally I’d like the header in bold?
4 Thanks I had not realised that tags would need a post_tags prefix as to display categories just categories is needed.
5 and finally how are the table borders controlled. When the rows were part width they were surrounded by a full width table that had its own border.

Thanks for your update. I had another look at your “test MLA” page and I can see several changes in the CSS and HTML there. It looks like the 30×30 cell size has been corrected.

There are some problems with your templates.

• In the style template there are two entries for the #[+selector+] .gallery-row selector. The first entry contains width: 97%, which may account for the full-width table. Eliminate the first entry and see if things improve.
• Your markup template has been corrupted, probably by a “copy and paste” from the text in my post to the text box in your Settings/Media Library Assistant MLA Gallery page. There are several single “smart quotes” in your class names, id names and elsewhere that are preventing the browser form matching the HTML to the CSS styles.

Go back to your template and edit this part:

<table id='mla_gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-362  gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-icon'>
<tr class='header-row'><th>Document Title</th><th>Click icon to view file</th></tr>

Change all of the single quotes to plain-text double quotes and look over all of your template content to make sure it’s right. You can use the “view source” facility in your browser to verify that what is generated on the page is valid CSS and HTML. If you can get everything cleaned up you should get the results you need.

I am marking this topic resolved, but if you have any other MLA-specific problems or questions regarding the plugin please update it.

Hi, many thanks I updated the code to replace the ‘s with “s and the columns are now the right size. Whilst it displays ok in chrome in IE the PDF icons are still the original large size ??
I did spot that although the images are set to be 16 by 16 they also have a (img width=”16″ height=”16″) and a (class=”attachment-64×64) from somewhere… NB I’ve added the ()’s in this Reply

I’ve had another look at the “test MLA” page and things are improving nicely.

Regarding your comment that “in IE the PDF icons are still the original large size“, I can tell you that this behavior seems to be limited to Internet Explorer versions 8 and earlier. I am using IE 11 and the icons are tiny. Using the Developer Tools to emulate earlier IE versions shows that IE versions 10 and 9 also look fine.

You can try adding width and height attributes to your IMG styles:

#[+selector+] .gallery-row .gallery-icon img {
    border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
    width: 16px;
    height: 16px;
}

If that doesn’t work you will have to consult a more experienced CSS/HTML resource.