Template talk:Chart
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To use this at Julio-Claudian family tree, I would need a dotted, dashed intersect tile for Augustus' adoption of Lucius and Gaius or else face a really convoluted adoption line. Such a problematic family tree. — Laura Scudder ☎ 00:07, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- I can see what you mean: you have a monster tree there! I'll see what I can do about other mixed tiles without making it too complicated. TimR (talk) 17:13, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- OK, see what you can do with these:
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- OK, nailed it. It seems to be a pretty stupid IE7 bug. If you give it this code:
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<table> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: 1px dashed black; border-right: 1px dotted black;"> Cell content </td> </tr> </table>
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- then both borders come out dotted. But if you change either of the colours, it's OK. I've fixed it by altering the colours of the buggy squares slightly to include #000001, which is different enough from black to escape the bug, but close enough to black not to notice. TimR (talk) 15:13, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
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- Thanks! I think it's a big improvement for clarity. Now I just have to figure out if there's any good way to hook Claudius Marcellus up to his parents on the other side of the tree. Although, in my dreams there would be a series that had parallel lines on one side (so you could have multiple connections going into one side of a box rather than intersecting before the box) but that would be a lot of tiles. — Laura Scudder ☎ 18:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Expert chart maker needed
Every time I try to use this, it hardly ever turns out right. The connecting lines are never in the center of the tops or bottoms of the boxes. Could someone please contact me here or on my talk page about creating a chart for me that actually looks good. What I am trying to chart out is here. If anyone can help me, it would be appreciated. I have no clue what the differences are between the solid, dotted, or dashed lines mean. - LA @ 08:33, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I've had a look at your page, and I think that I can see what you're trying to do. If I'm right, then using a {{chart}} probably isn't the easiest way to go: charts tend to be good if you want a whole load of boxes of a more-or-less standard size, and with lines connecting them. Perhaps you're better off with something in the form of a table, like this:
- That still may not be quite what you want, if I've not understood what you're after. And feel free to change the colours to match your preferences. :-) TimR (talk) 12:16, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
- What I am trying to show is "parentage." For example, the film Destroy All Monsters is considered a sequel to Varan the Unbelievable, Son of Godzilla, and Atragon. That would make those three films the "parents" of Destroy All Monsters. I would like to be able to clean up the film series lists, so if I can get a grip on this, I could weed the lists of series that are artificially created. - LA @ 21:12, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
