This seems like something that would have been asked before, but I can't seem to find a forum post on it...
Is there a sane syntax for getting the Mingle wiki to render blank cells in tables?
Example: Let's say I have the following table:
| A | B | C |
| D | E | F |
| G | H | I |
I want to replace D, F, and H with blank cells. but keep the rest of the formatting intact, i.e. I want the following table:
| A | B | C |
| E | ||
| G | I |
I can't seem to get this to work in Mingle--I always get the following table:
| A | B | C |
| E | ||
| G | I |
I've tried all of the wiki markups below, all of which I feel SHOULD convey "I want a cell here with nothing in it" but none of which work--I always get the incorrect table. Is there a "right" formatting I should be using?
Nothing between the table delimiters
|A|B|C|
||E||
|G||I|
Put Space In Cells
|A|B|C|
| |E| |
|G| |I|
Put 3 Space In Cells
|A|B|C|
| |E| |
|G| |I|
Put dots in cells
|A|B|C|
|.|E|.|
|G|.|I|
I tried checking the table formatting in the "Advanced Formatting" help, but it's largely silent on how to make a blank cell (colspanning won't really solve my problem).
http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/mingle/3.0/help/formatting_help_component.html
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Hi Mike
Currently there is no way to render empty cells in the table markup. This is caused by a bug in the third-party library that Mingle uses for our wiki markup. We aim to upgrade to a newer version of this library within the next few releases and this should fix the problem.
When I come across this problem in my usage of Mingle, I use a hyphen (-) to indicate the cell is left intentionally blank. Perhaps, this workaround or something similar would work for you in the meantime.
thanks
-jen
Try using the HTML non breaking space:
|A|B|C|
| |E| |
|G| |I|
Not to refute Jen's statement but it worked fine for me.
Thanks, sydd, that works (and is considerably more elegant than my workaround of hand-coding the table in HTML when I absolutely need proper formatting).
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