Two Identically Created Tables Not Outputting Same Size

[Wyatt Stueven]

I have two tables I set up the exact same way, both set to 700px wide with the columns being 250px, 225px, & 225px. When I build the target pdf though they have different sizing. One is sized perfectly while the other seems to have shrunk the first column exclusively. They're both using the same table stylesheet and I'm at a complete loss. Any ideas?

I have my example image shown in the attachments.

[Nita Beck]

If the tables are set up identically, then I’d suspect something inside the tables. For example, does the image in your second example have some padding or margin around it, either directly in the code of the topic or perhaps in a Capture .props file (if you use Capture)? Some CSS “closer” to the content is overriding the sizing of the table and its columns. At least, that’s where I’d start my investigation.

[Wyatt Stueven]

I found the issue! I had a line of text in the middle column up before the image that was bold-red and all caps. Apparently Flare won't break an all caps message right where you want it to and it tries to fit it all on one line. Who knew.

[Zauberlehrling]

I have a similar problem.
All tables use the same table-template, but some are full-width and others are not. It looks like it depends on the content, but I want them all full-width, and always was like that, but suddenly I noticed the difference. In Flare itself they are all the same width, but in the HTML the width is different.

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It only affects the HTML output, the PDF output is fine.
Any idea, what that causes this behaviour, since all tables of this art using the same table template?

[Zauberlehrling]

I found the reason for the tables not being 100% (full-width) but it's still a mystery how this happens when all tables using the same table-style (not table-template, sorry). I created a new topic and entered all the information from the one with the tables not being shown correctly. I applied all the styles, exactly as they were applied in the original one and suddenly the tables show all full-width. I noticed that there is a style in the table tag what gives the width="100%". Although all use the same style and no table gets an extra style the original table tag says the following

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<table class="TableStyle-WarningCautionTable" cellspacing="0" style="mc-table-style: url('../../Resources/TableStyles/WarningCautionTable.css');">

and the newly created table with exactly the same style and in the exact same way created than the first one, the table tag says the following.

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<table style="width: 100%;margin-left: 0;margin-right: auto;mc-table-style: url('../../Resources/TableStyles/WarningCautionTable.css');" class="TableStyle-WarningCautionTable" cellspacing="0">

I find this really weird, because the change in the width of individual tables (not all are affected) changed when changing content in the individual topics where a table is present.

[trent the thief]

Hi there,

This is a "known" issue with Flare's tables. There's no simple way to take a table down to bare tags and apply the exact style/class. You'll often find that overrides creep into the table tags anytime you touch Table Properties and you'll inherit a raft of them on a word import.

Between reset table class, reset table style, and reset local table formatting, Flare still leaves garbage behind. The only way to clean it is from the Text Editor or use NotePad++.

1. Select the table's html

2. Press CTRL+H

3. Paste this regex into NotePad++'s search string :

<(\/?(?:table|thead|tbody|tr|td|th)\b)[^>]*\s(class|style)="[^"]*"[^>]*>

4. Paste this into the Replace string

<\1>

5. Click "In selection" (checked)

6. Click Replace All

That removes all classes and styles from the all the table-related html tags. Now any issues you see in the table are caused by the P tags on the content. You can apply the table style or class you want to use without having any existing overrides getting in the way of your design.