Tables lose left margins when width Properties are changed

[ktbCA57]

I submitted a ticket to Tech Support to find out what was going on.. I was told this is apparently a bug that has now been reported and they will notify me IF a solution is found! This seems like kind of a major deal... it is for us! SHOW STOPPER IN FACT!

So... I go into an existing table that is fine... left margin is fine... but I need to change the width. Go into Table properties, change the width... and the table slides ALL the way to the left. If i hit UNDO right then, i can get it back to it original position, but without the width setting i want. However, going back to the properties and changing the width back to whatever it's original setting was, doesn't fix the problem. Only undo does.

This means 1) several tables are now too far to the left, and/or 2) any remaining tables have to have the default width setting which isn't always appropriate.

HAS ANYONE ELSE SEEN THIS? Anyone have a workaround? I was offered no workaround - just a vague promise that sounds like "don't call us, we'll call you".

I've always been very impressed with MadCap's tech support... but this is super frustrating! HELP!

[ChoccieMuffin]

Do you use table stylesheets or are you doing this kind of thing on individual tables?

As a suggestion (no guarantees but worth a try) create a table stylesheet with the settings you want, then apply the table stylesheet to the offending tables. As a tip, in the Table Stylesheet Editor there's an option to apply a table to all the tables in a topic or set of topics and remove any inline formatting, so that might do the trick. Definitely worth a go.

[ktbCA57]

These are Table stylesheets for sure...

The issue with creating a new stylesheet is that i still can't set the overall table width - just the column widths individually. Unless there's a way that I am not seeing.

Thanks for the suggestion tho! and you did teach me a new trick...applying a table style to multiple topics! THANKS!

[ChoccieMuffin]

There are some CSS settings in your regular stylesheet that also affect tables with a table stylesheet so you could look there too. The main one is "table { width: xxx; }" where "xxx" can be a specific measurement, a percentage, auto, or inherit. If that setting is 100%, that may be what's causing your table to jump all the way to the left and ignore your margin. What do you have in your regular CSS for "table" in the offending medium? Have you set table margins in the table stylesheet in the General tab (do check the medium that's causing the problem, I often forget to do that.)

[ktbCA57]

so... to my chagrin... but really kind of relieved... this was an issue of inline settings.. somehow the tables got set to Left in the properties and I didn't notice or see that. I generally have properties set to the default left margin... so not sure how this happened...

Thanks everyone for your input... it was just another case of "loose nut behind the keyboard"... those hardware issues are killers!

[ChoccieMuffin]

Delighted you've solved the problem!

[ktbCA57]

I feel super stupid... but so happy it wasn't a bug like i was told at first! THANKS, ChoccieMuffin!