FCKed: table width as an inline style rather than attribute

hi guys

I have some serious problem - I am using FCKeditor in Drupal. I designed my own theme using quite a lot of CSS files. For certain reasons, I have set table all tables to have default width of 100% but in several cases I also need to set table to have a width of 60% or any other values.

I was hoping that I will be able to do this with FCKeditor but it turns out that when I right-click on a table and change it's width to any other value it doesn't affect the output at all. It turns out that FCKeditor puts the "width" as a table tag attribute and not as an inline style.

example of what I have:

<table width="60%">...

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 16:37

dtleahy

Joined: 09/01/2009

Posts: 50

Re: FCKed: table width as an inline style rather than attribute

Have you tried defining template(s)? This might be the simplest answer. You could define the table whatever way you want, save it, then have it available to be loaded it as a template.

aniam wrote:... need to set table to have a width of 60% or any other values.

The one criterion of yours that sounds tricky for the eventual user is knowing what size to make the table. You certainly don't want to have a huge dropdown list of templates for the user to select from, offering every possible table width option, say between 40% and on up to 100%:
TableWidth40%
TableWidth41%
TableWidth42%
TableWidth43%
TableWidth44%
ad nauseum

How will they know what size to make the table? (a rhetorical question - just something for you to think about) If a small variety of table sizes will work, say 10% increments, that list would not be so daunting for your users.

HTH,

Dennis