empty cells result in broken table

[izzy]

editing a table which contains empty cells results in broken table. Example:

Table before editing:

|| filled cell || || last cell ||

After editing:

||filled cell||||last cell||

all spaces are removed, and Trac fails interpreting this as an empty cell in some circumstances. I'm not sure why and when this happens - I failed provoking this without the plugin. But if it happens, it shows the Pipe symbol (|) within the table cell. And it's not specific to a given branch (0.10 or 0.11).

Suggestion: Leave spaces (or not spaces) as they have been, as long as the user does not edit them. Sometimes there must not be spaces (as with the patch for table headers, where 3 pipes are used to indicate cell borders - inserting spaces here would break again), and sometimes they seem to be needed.

Note: The problem may be caused by the "table header patch" mentioned above, since having e.g. 6 pipes together could be either 3 data cells or 2 header cells - and somehow it fetches the "3" first. So if data cells have been meant, layout is broken by that. The pipe symbol then appears within the cell if you have 4 pipes (i.e. 2 data cells), since first the 3 pipes are matched as TH, and then only one is left, which is taken literally. But this is only one of the cases.

Summary: When converting input to Wysiwyg, don't remove spaces in table cells - but also don't insert additional ones, leave as-is. Same when converting back on submit.

[izzy]

Will there anything be done concerning this issue? Not a rude comment - just a question on what to expect ;)

[Jun Omae]

The latest wysiwyg plugin leaves one space at least around double-pipes.