The third trial to implement extended (MediaWiki-style) table syntax in DokuWiki.

What's New / Difference from exttab2:

• The plugin now completely writes its own plugin calls (instruction list) in the handle processing stage before render stage. In contrast to earlier versions, this change ensures the plugin to work better with DokuWiki's own EOL & paragraph handling and serves to avoid potential invalid html rendering.
• Better handling of nested tables (tables inside tables), even though they should be avoided as much as possible.
• No need to add an extra blank line to the end of whole table to close extended table mode.

Search and install the plugin using the Extension Manager. Refer to Plugins on how to install plugins manually.

The markup for the extended table is explained well at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables

Here is an example usage of extended table syntax.

Wiki source {| title="Extended Table Example" |+//Extended Table Example// ! style="width: 12em;"| A1 Header ! style="width: 10em;"| B1 Header |- style="background-color: MistyRose;" | {| title="nested table" |+ //nested table// | {{ wiki:dokuwiki-128.png?50&nolink}} **Lorem** ipsum dolor sit amet, //consetetur// sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. |} | List in Cell * //italic// and **bold** * ''monospace'' * [[:start|page link]] > quoting **ATTENTION:**\\ Needs an extra empty line after lists and quoting syntax! |}

html output (image)

The class exttable is available as a part of selectors in your CSS file. The HTML of extended table is enclosed between <div class="exttable"> and </div>. The following CSS rule-set is defined in style.css of the plugin directory:

• reducing indent width of list block in cells:

  .exttable ol, .exttable ul { padding-left: 0em; }

• reducing bottom and left margin of list block in cells:

  .exttable ol, .exttable ul { margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 1em; }

• suppress extra line spacing after paragraph in cells:

  .exttable p { margin-bottom: 0; }

When using vector template for DokuWiki, tables won't have borders around the cells. To add a border, use the default way of vector template customization by altering /dokuwiki/lib/tpl/vector/user/screen.css (NOT /dokuwiki/lib/tpl/vector/styles/screen.css). Insert the following:

.exttable td,
.exttable th {
   **border**: 1px solid __border__;
}

This 3rd trial to implement exttab is based on

• the 2nd version (exttab2, 2010-08-28) (source: https://​github.com/​ssahara/​dw-plugin-exttable/​tree/​exttab2) by disorder change with XSS vulnerability fix by Ashish Myles.
• The first version (exttab1, 2006-10-19) (source: https://github.com/wernerflamme/dwexttab1/) was released by Werner Flamme.

Thanks for their earlier development and sharing source code.

• update plugin.info and README (2021-03-24 11:28)
• rename _open() and _close() methods (2021-03-24 11:27)
• Merge pull request #20 from ssahara/odt2 (2021-03-24 10:36)
• add author (2021-03-24 10:33)
• remove unnecessary guards (2021-03-19 03:21)
• indent of 4 spaces, instead of tab (2021-03-19 02:48)
• support colspan and rowspan for odt renderer (2021-03-18 15:31)
• Merge pull request #16 from ssahara/PSR-12 (2019-09-29 11:38)
• update plugin.info (2019-09-29 11:29)
• update README (2019-09-29 11:28)

This plugin is only a trial to implement MediaWiki-like extended table syntax, and table output (html) may differ from those of MediaWiki.

If you use {{page>...}} syntax of Include Plugin in wikitables, it will crush borders in all cells after a table header. If you look at browser's console, it will show inserted code style="border: 0px none;" in TD tags. CSS files can't do this, and in both plugins there is no such code, so it's a problem of Doku core, maybe.

You can fix it by adding !important mark to a both border instructions in lib/plugins/exttab3/style.css. This decision works with more high priority, but doesn't make a pure code, whatever.

Links do not work if they contain an embedded vertical bar, like in [[path:to:page|Oh that page!]]. - Daumling

changing line 70 of file syntax.php might also be a fix.

        $attrs = '[^\n\{\|\!\[]+'; // match pattern for attributes

Thanks for this patch, merged into the plugin release 2014-11-20.

<br/> to create line breaks within cells does not work. - Silverfire

please use \\ – two backslashes followed by a whitespace or the end of line.

It's an original syntax of Doku, but if somebody really want to use <br/>, than s/he can add this tag at conf/entities.conf file (or at update-protected conf/entities.local.conf file) as string <br> <br />