SID-01972: Using variables in a table

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:
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I want to display variables within the cells of a table. This is easy to do in the editor, raw or WYSIWYG. But the expanded content gets displayed outside of the table. How do I force the table to re-size appropriately?

-- TWiki Guest - 2014-09-18

Discussion and Answer

For example:

-- TWiki Guest - 2014-09-18

It depends on the variable if it is possible to embed it in a TWiki table or not. If the variable has newlines when expanded it will break a TWiki table because TWiki variables are expanded before the TWiki rendering (headings, bullets, tables, etc), and a TWiki table row cannot span multiple lines. That is, as long as the variable does not return a newline it will work in TWiki tables.

You can tell INCLUDE to convert newlines to line breaks by using a newline="$br" parameter. This requires TWiki-6.0. Details at VarINCLUDE.

If you want to use variables that have newlines in tables you need to use HTML tables instead of TWiki tables.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-09-19

Thanks Peter. HTML tables work. But I now have a related problem - see SID-01973.

-- Ben Kinsella - 2014-09-19

I replied in SID-01973 on how to preserve HTML tables, e.g. prevent the WYSIWYG editor from changing HTML back to TML.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-09-19

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