[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 4.2: Tables in content elements break backend layout

[Uschi Renziehausen]

Hi Masi,

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> Uschi Renziehausen schrieb:
>> Hi Masi,
>>
>> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>>
>>> Otherwise please stick the list's rules. New threads must start with 
>>> a patch for a bug fix a or feature.
>>>
>>
>> Those are the list rules for core list, but this one is the dev list. 
>> I would not be able to write that patch :-(
> 
> Sorry!!! I'm constantly switching between the lists. My fault.
> 
>>> Anyway, do I understand you correct when I assume that this behaviour 
>>> only occurs when the RTE is disabled?
>> No, the RTE is enabled. We do not talk about that page where you edit 
>> one content element, but the one you get to if you click on the 
>> pagetitle in the pagetree, the one with the overview of the content 
>> elements. Is there an official name for it?
> 
> Usually referred to Web>page, probably the same if you use templa voila.
> 
>>>  Further question: is this behaviour new (as
>>> your subject line suggests)? I don't think that it differs from 
>>> previous TYPO3 versions.
>>>
>> Hm, cannot tell you for certain right now, but if the rendering of 
>> tables has not been changed, there will be no difference between older 
>> versions and 4.2. Only, now the table editor in RTE is really nice, so 
>> more people will use it.
>> Mind you, the problem only occurs if your table has a lot of columns 
>> and there is only one word in each column. The problem also might 
>> occur if you have a long long ol/ul with each li only containing one 
>> word. I think this is why the issue remained undetected.
> 
> As it's the preview (as Steffen wrote) this has wlaways been the way. 
> Along with the ugly way non-breaking spaces are displayed as entities.
> 
> Adding spaces before all (?) block level elements could be a solution 
> (at least tr, p, div, blockquote, address and a maybe few others).

Here are the few other ones: td, th, li (especially with those three we 
might run into problems without spaces if each item only contains one 
word), dd, dt, dl, ol, ul.

> As 
> for adding line breaks: Line breaks will blow up the preview area. Of 
> course thy could be added for TRs, but shouldn't they then not also 
> added for paragraphs, etc? Maybe a small icon could be used instead.
> 
Hm, not sure what it would look like. One would have to experiment with 
it to test the look and feel. If something can be done for 4.2 the 
spaces are more important, if we have those, at least the be layout will 
not be broken anymore.

Regards, Uschi

> Masi