[TYPO3-dev] Improvements to standard Table Element

[Daniel Pötzinger]

>>
>> 2) Use "<" for colspan  and "^" for rowspan
>> + dont break the current wizard and
>> + is a bit more visual
>>
>> e.g.:
>>
>> text | text | text
>> text |<     | text
>> text |<     | <
>>
>> text | text | text
>> text |^     | text
>> text |^     | text
>>
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> Yes, that sounds very cool indeed! With solution (1) it would look more
> complicated to generate rowspans, and also more complicated to modify
> the wizard (I doubt someone will dare to do that..). So I would stay
> with (2).
> 
> While doing that maybe we could even find a way of allowing the user to
> tag a cell with some css-class and to choose td / th, e.g.:
The classes and some extra possibilities are a good idea. But why td/th: 
Is it not enough that the first row (if defined in tablelayout) is th 
and all others are td? Or do you think of defining some repeating 
headerrows?
> 
> text | text | text
> text |<     | text
> text |<     | <
> {th}text | {th}text | {th}text
> text | {class:my-css-class}text | text
> text |^     | text
> text |^     | text
> 
> Of course that should only be done in "compatVersion >= 4.2", as it
> might break some old tables that have the character "<" in cells to be
> displayed in the FE (for which we need some quoting syntax).
good point thx.