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Subject:Re: free editor that can sort HTML tables? From:Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:04:43 -0500
Don't know if this will be any help or not... Couple of work arounds to
make imported/ copypasta tables work so that they are sortable by default
in Confluence.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:
> Confluence's XHTML source isn't passed to the browser, it goes through
> a lot of transformations. For example, this source:
>
> <tr>
> <th>property</th>
> <th>type</th>
> <th>default value</th>
> <th colspan="1">notes</th>
> </tr>
>
> is transformed into this:
>
> <div class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><th
> talk-marker="1" class="confluenceTh">property</th><th talk-marker="2"
> class="confluenceTh">type</th><th talk-marker="3"
> class="confluenceTh">default value</th><th colspan="1" talk-marker="4"
> class="confluenceTh">notes</th></tr><tr>
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com> wrote:
> > I'd probably browse to someone's page that has that capability and view
> the
> > source code to see if they're selecting the default sortation somehow.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
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> > On 11/11/2014 11:09 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> >>
> >> If so, nobody's posted it as a workaround on the JIRA issue requesting
> >> that feature.
> >>
> >> There are a couple of plugins, but they appeared to predate the switch
> >> from wiki markup to XHTML in Confluence 4.
> >
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