Question

I have created a table and have been adding/editing text directly in the cells using the WYSIWYG editor. I have noticed though that if I hit "Enter" within a single cell, to create two lines of text, my table structure is lost (everything except the header row which remains intact). Why does this happen? Is there any way to create two lines within the same cell without this problem occuring?

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-- TWikiGuest - 03 May 2006

Answer

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I'm not familiar with WYSIWYG - but that's a shortcoming of TWiki tables in general. You can work around by entering %BR% or <p/> instead of using the "Enter" key, though then the source will look somewhat ugly.

-- HaraldJoerg - 03 May 2006

That seems to be a limitation of the TWiki ML > HTML > TWiki ML roundtrip the WYSIWYG is doing. In fact, one can argue that this is a limitation of TWiki tables, which do not allow multiple lines per cell. (The WYSIWYG could be made smart to convert newlines to a single line (with BR), or to leave HTML table in HTML format if a cell occupies more than one line.

If you want bullets, write %BULLET% or %BB% (breaking bullet).

-- PeterThoeny - 04 May 2006