While customising the XSLT of a DataFormWebPart I found a discrepancy between design-time and run-time interpretation of a template tag implementing param and variable tags. Placing the <xsl:param> tags first is important.
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DataFormWebPart’s sensitivity to XSLT parameter tag placement
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Improving readability of multi-line text columns in display view
Friday, February 20th, 2009SharePoint users have a tendency to create All Items views containing almost every column in their lists. In cases like these, the readability is often poor, and SharePoint gives users no ability to format the cells appropriately (such as text alignment, column width, etc). One case where this is most disrupting is for multi-line text columns. Single line text columns have a CSS width setting, but multi-line columns depend on the user including a sensible amount of columns to view. The image below illustrates this circumstance.
