Show table borders during editing in Tiny Editors

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Author: Christoph Stoettner
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After updating HCL Connections to 8CR3 and Tiny Editors to 4.9.2.24 the lines of tables are no longer visible during editing.

Here is the edit form with Tiny Editors 4.8.2.0:

Edit form with Tiny Editors 4.8.2.0 and table with border=0

When you try the same in Tiny Editors 4.9.2.24 the editor shows just white space, and you have to have a good imagination of the table cells to click into the right one.

Edit form with Tiny Editors 4.9.2.24 and table with border=0

The CSS classes are still there, so why does the editor hide the borders in edit mode too?

Table tag in Tiny Editors 4.8.2.0:

<table dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;" data-mce-style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;" class="mce-item-table" border="0">

Table tag in Tiny Editors 4.9.2.24:

<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; border-width: 0px;" border="1">

So the difference is that the new version keeps border="1" and removes the border with style=...;border-width: 0px;

The CSS class that should show the dashed lines is defined as:

.mce-item-table:not([border]),
.mce-item-table:not([border]) caption,
.mce-item-table:not([border]) td,
.mce-item-table:not([border]) th,
.mce-item-table[border="0"],
.mce-item-table[border="0"] caption,
.mce-item-table[border="0"] td,
.mce-item-table[border="0"] th,
table[style*="border-width: 0px"],
table[style*="border-width: 0px"] caption,
table[style*="border-width: 0px"] td,
table[style*="border-width: 0px"] th {
         border:1px dashed #bbb;
 }

The CSS rule gets overwritten by the element and needs to be changed.

Edit form with Tiny Editors 4.9.2.24 and table with border=0

The easiest workaround is to go to your customization folder, edit <shared directory>/customization/javascript/tiny/editors/connections/tiny-editors.css and add this to the end:

.mce-item-table:not([border]),
.mce-item-table:not([border]) caption,
.mce-item-table:not([border]) td,
.mce-item-table:not([border]) th,
.mce-item-table[border="0"],
.mce-item-table[border="0"] caption,
.mce-item-table[border="0"] td,
.mce-item-table[border="0"] th,
table[style*="border-width: 0px"],
table[style*="border-width: 0px"] caption,
table[style*="border-width: 0px"] td,
table[style*="border-width: 0px"] th {
         border:1px dashed #bbb !important;
 }

Restart the Common App, and the dashed lines are back in the editor window.

Author

Christoph Stoettner

I work at Vegard IT GmbH as a senior consultant with a focus on collaboration software, Kubernetes, security and automation. I mainly deal with HCL Connections, WebSphere Application Server, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform and Linux.

Sometimes my daily work results in technical talks and blog articles, which you can follow here more or less regularly. You can find the presentations in the main menu under public speaking .

I created a list of tools I use regularly, most of which have been released under an open source license.

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