Qt supported html subset "table" element RTL problem

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

Code:

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

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But I have to work around this to have it work for RTL “Arabic” as follows:

Code:

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

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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?


here is a sample of the main part that I keep tweaking:

Code:

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#include <QTextBrowser>
 
    void showtable(int lang)
    {
     QtextBrowser *textBrowser = new QtextBrowser;
     QString report;
 
                switch (lang)
                {
                case 0://Arabic
                    {
                    textBrowser->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>./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>./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);
    }

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