SID-01973: How to preserve HTML?

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:
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I need to use a HTML table in order to handle variables that expand to multiple lines. (See Support.SID-01972)

But what is the recommended way to enter HTML? If I use the raw editor, I can create a HTML table no problem. But if I (or another user) subsequently edit the topic in WYSIWYG mode, the HTML code is automatically changed to TWiki markup. And the "multi-line variables in a table" problem is re-introduced.

Is there any way to avoid this?

-- Ben Kinsella - 2014-09-19

Discussion and Answer

Two options:

1. Using raw edit, enclose HTML in <sticky>...</sticky> tags. Details in WysiwygPlugin

2. Define preferences variables to hide the HTML for tables, and use those. For example define STARTTABLE, STARTROW, ..., ENDTABLE settings in Main.TWikiPreferences, then use the new variables to compose an HTML table

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-09-19

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