A table widget

[mirkea]

- Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
Request a feature

- What is the current behavior?
Managing basic lists (such as a price table) is often a regular part of managing content for a site or web app
As it stands now, there is no way to define a list of items (texts) that is easy to read AND edit, due to the way the interface is designed (input field after input field after input field is not the same as a compact list, or table)

- What is the expected behavior?
A simple table structure to add content in. I will use Webhook as an example since it's a fantastic CMS with a fairly nice and simple solution to implement tables.

Here is how you enter the data, based on the defined data structure (columns)

- Please mention your CMS, node.js, and operating system version.
Netlify CMS version 0.4.6
WIndows 10 64biy
node.js v8.4.0

[erquhart]

@mirkea agreed, a table interface would be smart. It would essentially be a list widget with different styling, but the nested widgets would also need updated styling - perhaps it shouldn't use actual nested widgets and just provide a few specific field types, e.g. text, number, select, all of which would be styled inputs within the widget itself.

If you'd be up for trying a PR, I'm happy to answer any questions - this is a great first issue.

[mirkea]

@erquhart I'd love to but that's not my area of expertise (design, markup, skining) so I'm not the guy for it, but I'll see if a dev on my team would be willing to look into it

[zrayed]

i concur with this recommendation as even original WISYWIG editors had a table function....as it stands right now it is a tad annoying that even basic HTML markup for table borders is not recognized (outside of sloppy quasi-in-line CSS (current wrksln: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43196541/jekyll-now-github-pages-tables-dont-show-up) == hard to manage and wtf is html5 dying??).

@mirkea -- i used to do exactly that (design, markup, skinning) for a small indie shoppe in Baltimore.....built a few full-stacks as well....pls lmk if / how can join in the effort on this minor extension (i.e. some general leads to the arch would help a bunch as i only started using both jekyll and netlify < 1 mo. ago) - would love to help with a dynamite sys!

[eliwilliamson]

@erquhart any update on adding table functionality to the wysiwyg bar? i have multiple clients who have requested this feature for quite some time. It may force us to migrate to something that supports this 👎 - if you can, please prioritize this essential feature to content creation.

[erquhart]

@eliwilliamson I'm really glad the project has been useful in your business so far. Are you up for contributing at all? It'd be a great feature, I totally agree, there's just so much authoring that the community maintainers can do.

[eliwilliamson]

@erquhart i wish i could but i think it is above my skillset. I also think the request is misunderstood. I don't think we are looking for a new input type for the cms - rather an enhancement of the rich text editor that allows for creating/editing tables in markdown. I'm not familiar with the construct for this but there must be a something that could be bolted on to handle this? thinking something like this:

@mirkea @zrayed

[robertkarlsson]

@erquhart @eliwilliamson Looking through the source code of this project it looks like the implementation of the slate editor is pretty well prepared for handling tables (there is a lot of code mentioning tables). I can take a look at this, but not before next week when I go on vacation.

[tech4him1]

Wondering if this needs to be an "opt-in" button since not all markdown parsers support it (it is not part of CommonMark).

@erquhart We'll also need to consider at some point what the best way is to prevent cluttering the toolbar. Maybe we need to allow plugins to add to the toolbar directly (WP-style)?

[eliwilliamson]

@robertkarlsson you rock! 🤘 enjoy your vacation - happy we are finally getting this usability hole filled

[erquhart]

@tech4him1 you mean something beyond the buttons config property?

[eliwilliamson]

@robertkarlsson @erquhart anything i can do to help move this forward?

[eliwilliamson]

related ticket #1503