Seems pretty cool. Could use some more features like colspan.

dorylomorphs

Agreed; this would be much more useful with support for colspan and rowspan.

Drel

I have been using Notepad++ to generate HTML tables from tab delimited files. Table style can be easily inserted/modified. You can even shuffle columns (e.g., replace (field1)(field2)(field3) with \1\3\2).

wwni60

Cool, but needs support for adding other table elements such as th, etc.

math0ne

"Kotatsu" sounds like a dish consisting of breaded, deep-fried Kotaku served with Japanese style Worcestershire sauce. Mmmmm...

calpchen

Nice idea, but as was mentioned, colspan, borders, padding, etc. would make it really useful.
It's easier to use a few macros in Notepad++

amishsniper

That only makes sense if you're using tables for layout. People are so afraid of tables now, but they're still indicated for use when you're presenting a table or table-like view of related somethings.

fadecomic

What they really need in order to make it useful is to make it generate the code with CSS rather than table tags.

OptoGeek

C'mon people, this is the author's personal table generator that he's opened for public use. It's designed for one person, not every person.

That said, this thing seems excessively pretty, both in coding and appearance, for what it does. I guess that's to be expected from "The CSS Guy", but still, I'm surprised he didn't at least include a button for removing columns and rows, which would be useful for anyone. Could be done in Javascript like the rest of his code. Other features, like adding spans, might require dirtying up the app with form fields. My color-shifting image map generator is filthy with fields and ugly code, but it has options galore.

sumocat

Seems a little silly... I think it's easier, with the right text editor, to set up a macro to generate the table layout or just build the skeleton of a row and then repeat it as many times as needed. Using this seems almost to be more effort than it's worth... but maybe it's just me.

bjbackitis

Copy and paste from the last table I coded. If you can't code a table why even bother?

zarathustra

@calpchen: Actually, a kotatsu is a Japanese heated table, which is why I think the name is rather clever :p

This is probably more for beginners than actual HTML designers. Once you know the ins and outs of HTML, this kind of coding really isn't that big of a deal (at least in my experience).

Ninjeff

@Drel: Agreed

muteboy