Re: table problem after update

Dear Petko,

Thanks for your answer. Sorry for my previous email, my email client didn't
show your answer, that's why I asked again.

I could track down the problem to a cookbook recipe called extendmarkup.php
. Once I downloaded the newest version, the problem disappeared.

Thanks!

Laszlo

On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 5:12 PM Petko Yotov <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 26/08/2023 16:54, Jabba Laci wrote:
> > I had to update my homepage to the latest pmwiki version. The
> > migration went well except one little thing.
> >
> > In the old version I had tables like this:
> >
> > %rframe bgcolor=lightblue%Attach:face.jpg"@hello"
> > ||'''Name'''           ||Myself
> > ||'''Age'''            ||20
> >
> > Here, the table appeared on the left side and the image appeared on
> > the right. They were next to one another.
> >
> > However, the new pmwiki renders it differently. The image is still on
> > the right side, but the table appears _below_ it on the left side, not
> > next to it.
>
> I suspect there is a <table width='100%'> tag in the HTML so the table
> is actually 100% wide and thus drops below the picture.
>
> I think a "||" table definition is missing at the start of the table, it
> should probably look like this:
>
>    %rframe bgcolor=lightblue%Attach:face.jpg"@hello"
>    ||
>    ||'''Name''' ||Myself
>    ||'''Age'''  ||20
>
> When you don't have a table definition like "||", or "|| border=1
> class=simpletable", PmWiki will reuse a previous table definition from
> the same page, or from an included page, or a borderless table that is
> 100% wide.
>
> PmWiki hasn't changed this behaviour for years. Is it possible you had a
> table near the top of the page that included a "||" definition, and you
> removed that table?
>
> For historical reasons, because many wikis may rely on this behaviour,
> we don't currently have plans to change it in the core installation. But
> as it may appear counter-intuitive, in the documentation we strongly
> recommend people to always write the initial "||" table definition for
> every table:
>
>    https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Tables
>
> Petko
>

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