- Summary
- Improve support for very long tables
- Type
- Change
- Raised by
- John Rankin
- Date opened
- Friday, 7 October 2005
- Description
- If a table is longer than one physical page, the trailing content is lost into the page footer.
- Importance
- 3
- Proposed solution
- Split long tables across multiple pages, with a running header if appropriate. At the moment, there appears to be no way to designate a table header row in wiki markup. It seems reasonable to treat a starting row of <th> cells as a heading row.
- Require at least 2 rows on a page, if possible. Investigate use of a class=long attribute so authors can explicitly tag long tables.
- Urgency
- 3
- Status
- Closed
- Resolution
- This is partly resolved: advanced tables will split actoss pages. Currently, simple tables of class=long will split across pages, including an optional running header. There were some cosmetic issues with justification, hyphenation and column widths, but these have been resolved. If the first row is all headings (or headings and empty cells), this becomes a running header. A table running footer at the end of each page says Continued on next page.
- Date closed
- Monday, 20 February 2006
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