Qt supported html subset, RTL problem

kalma

Hi

I am using Qt 4.7.4 Win.
My problem is that the RTL feature seems not to work for the HTML "table" element.
e.g. the following works fine for LTR languages

@QString htmtext("<table>"
"<tr><td>name1<td>name2....")'@

But I have to work around this to have it work for RTL "Arabic" as follows:
@QString htmtext("<table>"
"<tr><td>name2<td>name1....")'@

Very annoying when working with big table.

Using dir="rtl" proved to be of no use here too; is it a bug or Qt works this way?

please help;
thanks

dangelog

Maybe it's a bug? Can you paste a minimal testcode? Also, does it happen with webkit?

kalma

Hi! thanks for the reply
here is a sample of the main part that I keep tweaking:

@#include <QTextBrowser>

void showtable(int lang)
{
QtextBrowser *textBrowser = new QtextBrowser;
QString report;

        switch (lang)
        {
        case 0://Arabic
            {
            setLayoutDirection(Qt::RightToLeft);// works fine for layout only but not RTL text rendered insude QTextBrowser

            //-----------table header
            report = "<table width=\"100%\" dir=rtl align=right border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1>" //RTL bug???
                      "<tr><td align=center colspan=3><H3>"+tr("Media Details")+"<font color=red><b> [</b>"+name+"<b>]</b></font>"
                      "<tr><td align=center bgcolor=\"#EBEBEB\" width=\"50%\"><b>"+tr("Details")+"</b>"
                      "<td align=center bgcolor=\"#EBEBEB\" width=\"20%\"><b>"+tr("Logo")+"</b>"//make nicer
            //--------------details
                      "<tr><td align=right>"+name+"<td align=right><b>"+tr("Name")+"<td rowspan=4 align=center valign=middle><img src='./medialogo.png'>"
                      "<tr><td align=right>"+"Qtland"+"<td align=right><b>"+tr("Country")+
                      "<tr><td align=right>"+"info"+"<td align=right><b>"+tr("Content")+
                      "<tr><td align=right>"+"programming"+"<td align=right><b>"+tr("Genre")+
                      "<tr><td align=right>"Owner"<td align=right><b>"+tr("Ownership")+"<td></table><p><br>";
            break;
            }
        case 1://English
            {
            //-----------table header
            report = "<table width=\"100%\" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1>" //
                      "<tr><td align=center colspan=3><H3>"+tr("Media Details")+"<font color=red><b> [</b>"+name+"<b>]</b></font>"
                      "<tr><td align=center bgcolor=\"#EBEBEB\" width=\"20%\"><b>"+tr("Logo")+"</b>"//make this nicer
                      "<td align=center bgcolor=\"#EBEBEB\" width=\"50%\"><b>"+tr("Details")+"</b>"
                    //--------------details
                      "<tr><td  align=center valign=middle><img src='./medialogo.png'><td><b>"+tr("Name")+"<td>"+name+
                      "<tr><td><b>"+tr("Country")+"<td>"+"Qtland"+
                      "<tr><td><b>"+tr("Content")+"<td>"+"info"+
                      "<tr><td><b>"+tr("Genre")+"<td>"+"programming"+
                      "<tr><td><td><b>"+tr("Ownership")+"<td>"Owner"</table><p><br>";
            break;
            }
        }//switch

        textBrowser->setText(report);

}
@

I didn't test it against Webkit.

Thanks in advance