Question

• TWiki version: Dec 2001
• Perl version: ActiveState
• Web server:IIS
• Server OS:Win2K
• Web browser: IE6
• Client OS: Win2k

Why does the spec preclude having multiple lines in a single cell of a table, without resorting to HTML?

-- MartinRoberts - 04 Dec 2002

Answer

You can have multiple lines as rendered in the browser, you just have to type all table cells in one row all on one line, no matter how many lines they appear to be in the final View page. The reason is that parsing multiple lines is sufficiently complex that you might as well just use HTML tables.

There is an EditTablePlugin over in TWiki:Plugins that may make it easy enough to edit TWiki tables through a form that the actual syntax in the topic isn't a big deal. This plugin would need some work to tell it to provide a multi-line text input area for some table cells, so Perl coding would be involved.

-- RichardDonkin - 05 Dec 2002