Table cell content should allow markup text
Complex tables should be supported where the cell content itself is again markup text. This would allow tables where the cell content can contain e.g. lists, emphasized text and even another complete table.
It is partly possible with the macro Minipage, but of course not when using the GUI editor.
The FCKeditor already can handle those complex tables.
The wiki table syntax must be extended to allow this. Currently the formatting of a table cell is very difficult or even impossible. Even new lines must be inserted with extra < < BR > > macro, those cell content is later difficult to edit with the GUI.
best regards Stefan
I agree. This is a huge weakness in MoinMoin compared to other wikis. Minipage is only useful for a small amount of markup inside a table cell and is painful to use for something like a list of items.
Does anyone else feel like the no-markup-within-tables limitation is making tables not very useful?
I think it is important that we be able to edit complex tables via FCKEditor, as this is what makes WYSIWYG editing worthwhile. You don't gain much from using a WYSIWYG to edit prose, but using it for structures like a complex table increases productivity tremendously. It would also be nice for the table syntax to handle borderless tables, i.e. <table border="0">.
I'm surprised this hasn't been fixed yet because tables are the easiest way of controlling the structure and layout of a page, so most people would use it.
cheers David
It is much more sane to control the layout by css. Anyway if you want to have markup rendered in tables you also could use the Include macro. Also a patch is welcome. This becomes much easier after the domtree refactoring is merged. -- ReimarBauer 2009-07-07 16:49:05