Really awsome job, i have asked for that before, cause it s really anoying to insert big table manually, even if i use a text editor to convert tab to |, the plugin is much easier to explain the manner to insert table into textpattern.

Hi makss, thank you for your simple and very useful plugin.

I’m having some troubles with (X)HTML validation of the generated code: the generated table is wrapped in a “@<p>@” tag and that’s not valid “XHTML 1.0 Transitional”. In fact, validator.w3.org says something like:

document type does not allow element "table" here; missing one of
"object", "applet", "map", "iframe", "button", "ins", "del" start-tag

	<p><table class="classname"><tr><td>(content)</td> ...

(...)

One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element
(such as "<p>" or "<table>") inside an inline element (such as "<a>", "<span>", or "<font>").

In fact you can see the <p> tag prefixed to the <table> tag.

I am quite new to TXP and plugins, but anyway I tried to modify your plugin by returning on the last line something like:

return doTag($out, "table", $className);

But it still outputs the “p” tag wrapping the “table” tag. Probably I am not enough good with TxP and its plugins… :-)

The only solution I found so far is to start the <mks_table> line with a blank space, so preventing the generation of the “p” tag, but this is quite unelegant and prone to be forgotten, especially when others have to write and manage the articles with tables.

Do you think I am doing something wrong or maybe the plugin can be improved this way?

Kind regards
Aldo

Last edited by Ldx (2009-10-24 17:28:50)

Gocom wrote:

(like for example starting the line with whitespace or using notextile.).

Or turn Textile off for that article (under Advanced options).

Thank you all for the answers. As far as I understood, the plugin cannot be responsible for the “p” tag that is put in place by Textile.
The “rah_replace” plugin is interesting (thanks uli!), but I am wondering if using such a plugin on a quite loaded server can slow down performances, since it has to scan all HTML code of each page served.