/** * Create a table from TableConfig configuration. * * <p>We create the table using innerHTML instead of creating each DOM node in order to improve * the speed. In most of the browsers setting the innerHTML is faster than creating the DOM nodes * and appending them. * * @param doc currently edited document. * @param config table configuration (row number, etc). * @return the newly created table. */ public Element createTable(Document doc, TableConfig config) { StringBuffer table = new StringBuffer("<table>"); StringBuffer row = new StringBuffer("<tr>"); for (int i = 0; i < config.getColNumber(); i++) { row.append("<td>"); // The default cell content depends on the browser. In Firefox the best option is to use a BR. // Firefox // itself uses BRs in order to allow the user to place the caret inside empty block elements. // In Internet // Explorer the best option is to set the inner HTML of each cell to the empty string, after // creation. For // now lets keep the non-breaking space. At some point we should have browser specific // implementations for // FF and IE. Each will overwrite this method and add specific initialization. row.append(TableUtils.CELL_DEFAULTHTML); row.append("</td>"); } row.append("</tr>"); if (config.hasHeader()) { table.append("<thead>"); if (config.getRowNumber() > 0) { table.append(row.toString().replace("td", "th")); } table.append("</thead>"); } table.append("<tbody>"); for (int i = config.hasHeader() ? 1 : 0; i < config.getRowNumber(); i++) { table.append(row.toString()); } table.append("</tbody></table>"); Element container = doc.createDivElement().cast(); container.setInnerHTML(table.toString()); Element tableElement = (Element) container.getFirstChild(); container.removeChild(tableElement); return tableElement; }