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What's the difference between col and colspan and how to use then in OpenERP?

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Every form view container (form itself, group, page, I think there are more) in OpenERP consists of 4 columns to start with.

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┌───┬───┬───┬───┐
│ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │
└───┴───┴───┴───┘
 

Every takes 2 columns: label & input field


┌───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┐
│ label │ input │ labl2 │ inpt2 │
└───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┘ 

With colspan, you can widen items.


┌───────┬───────────────────────┐
│ labl4 │ inpt4_______________  │
├───────┼───────┬───────┬───────┤
│ label │ input │ labl2 │ inpt2 │
└───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┘
┌───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┐
│ label │ input │       │       │
├───────┼───────┴───────┴───────┤
│ labl4 │ inpt4_______________  │
├───────┼───────┬───────┬───────┤
│ labl2 │ inpt2 │       │       │
└───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┘ 

When you add additional containers, like a page, you can tell OpenERP to use more or less columns.


│       │       │                │                │
├───────┴───────┼────────────────┴────────────────┤
│ ┌────┬───┐    │  ┌────┬───┬────┬───┬────┬───┐   │
│ │ lb │ a │    │  │ lb │ d │ lb │ e │ lb │ f │   │
│ ├────┼───┤    │  └────┴───┴────┴───┴────┴───┘   │
│ │ lb │ b │    │                                 │
│ └────┴───┘    │                                 │
├───────┬───────┼────────────────┬────────────────┤
│       │       │                │                │
  


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good answer. Just changed your answer, it's col, not cols

good job (Y)

tolstoj , could you update your answer. It seems that special character had been broken after updates of this site. I can see only something like that: ”œâ”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”´â”

I fixed the answer based on archive.org page: https://web.archive.org/web/20140215040610/http://help.openerp.com/question/1490/what-is-the-different-between-col-and-colspan