fix(editor): keep markdown tables intact through the publish editor - #1482
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The publish editor destroyed every table. On each update use-publish-editor serializes the document back to markdown with markdownToHtml, and that Turndown instance only registered the strikethrough GFM plugin. Turndown has no built-in table rule, so <table> was flattened into loose cell text, both for a pasted table and for one built with the toolbar's insert-table button. Registering the gfm tables plugin alone was not enough: TipTap renders tables as <table><colgroup>...</colgroup><tbody>, keeping the header cells as <th> in the first tbody row. The plugin's heading-row check only accepts a tbody whose previous sibling is absent or an empty <thead>, so the colgroup made it miss the header and prepend an empty row. Stripping colgroup first restores the check; it only carries editor column widths, which markdown cannot express. Separately, wide tables were unreachable once rendered. A display:table box is not a scroll container, so the existing overflow-x:auto never applied, and the overflow-hidden utility clipped the overflow instead. Measured on the post column, an 18-column table needed 1732px inside 700px with no way to scroll to the cut-off columns. display:block makes the table its own scroll container while rows still lay out as a table, and width:100% keeps tables that already fit looking exactly as before.
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PR Summary by QodoFix publish editor markdown table round-trip and rendered table overflow
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| // rows still lay out as a table internally; `width: 100%` keeps tables that | ||
| // already fit rendering full-width exactly as before. | ||
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For tables narrower than the post column, display: block makes the element a full-width scroll container but causes its tbody/rows to be laid out inside an anonymous table whose intrinsic width is independent of this outer width: 100%. Consequently, the cells, alternating-row backgrounds, and collapsed borders only occupy their content width instead of spanning the column as they did when the element itself was display: table. Use a separate scroll wrapper or otherwise size the generated inner table grid rather than changing the table's display role.
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Confirmed and reverted in 5c73b5e. Measured at a 700px column: the narrow-table grid collapsed from 702px to 78px exactly as you describe, because the rows fell back to an anonymous shrink-to-fit table box while the element stayed at 100%.
The underlying premise was also wrong: .markdown-view already sets overflow-x: auto, so wide tables have always scrolled inside the post body. My original measurement omitted that container rule. There was no CSS bug to fix.
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| // stacked as loose paragraphs, so a pasted or inserted table is | ||
| // destroyed on the next serialization. | ||
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When an existing post contains a header table with block content in a cell, such as a list or blockquote, registering tables after the custom table rule makes the plugin take precedence and converts the table to GFM even though GFM cells only support inline content. The conversion replaces the block structure with line-break-delimited Markdown, so merely editing the post silently changes or exposes that cell content on republish; the previous table rule preserved such tables as HTML. Only route GFM-compatible tables through this plugin and retain the HTML fallback for cells with unsupported structure.
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Correct, and this one made me re-check the whole premise. The pre-existing table rule returning outerHTML means develop already preserves tables losslessly, including cells with block content. Registering tables after it trades that for GFM, which only holds inline content, so lists and blockquotes in cells degrade to <br>.
Since the round-trip was never broken, that trade buys nothing. I have marked the PR draft and recommended closing it rather than adding a compatibility check, since the fix it claimed to make was not needed. Full write-up in the PR comment.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughMarkdown table conversion now preserves GFM table structure and removes unsupported column metadata. New tests cover editor round trips and generated tables. Markdown table styling now supports horizontal scrolling. ChangesMarkdown table support
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to Wide tables can now scroll horizontally, but keyboard-only users may be unable to reach columns outside the visible area because the scroll region cannot receive focus. Merge should wait for accessible focus handling and regression coverage. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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In `@apps/web/src/styles/_markdown.scss`:
- Around line 246-251: Make rendered markdown tables keyboard-accessible by
adding tabindex="0" to generated table output and allowing that attribute in the
sanitizer whitelist, or by introducing a focusable overflow wrapper with visible
:focus-visible styling. Add a regression test covering keyboard focus and
preserved table scrolling.
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| // rows still lay out as a table internally; `width: 100%` keeps tables that | ||
| // already fit rendering full-width exactly as before. | ||
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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- markdown styles ---'
sed -n '220,275p' apps/web/src/styles/_markdown.scss
printf '%s\n' '--- static body component ---'
sed -n '1,100p' apps/web/src/app/\(dynamicPages\)/entry/\[category\]/\[author\]/\[permlink\]/_components/entry-page-static-body.tsx
printf '%s\n' '--- renderPostBody references ---'
rg -n -C 4 'renderPostBody|markdown-view|sanitize|sanitiz' apps/web/src
printf '%s\n' '--- table and tabindex handling ---'
rg -n -C 3 'tabindex|tabIndex|<table|table.*overflow|overflow-x' apps/web/srcRepository: ecency/vision-web
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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- markdown container styles ---'
sed -n '1,35p' apps/web/src/styles/_markdown.scss
sed -n '235,265p' apps/web/src/styles/_markdown.scss
printf '%s\n' '--- all relevant renderer call sites (limited) ---'
rg -l 'renderPostBody' apps/web/src | head -80
rg -n -C 2 'renderPostBody' \
'apps/web/src/app/(dynamicPages)/entry/[category]/[author]/[permlink]/_components/entry-page-static-body.tsx' \
'apps/web/src/app/(dynamicPages)/entry/[category]/[author]/[permlink]/_components/entry-pending-index-view.tsx' \
'apps/web/src/app/(dynamicPages)/entry/[category]/[author]/[permlink]/_components/entry-page-cross-post-body.tsx'
printf '%s\n' '--- dependency and workspace metadata ---'
rg -n -C 3 '"`@ecency/render-helper`"|render-helper' package.json package-lock.json yarn.lock pnpm-lock.yaml apps packages 2>/dev/null | head -250
printf '%s\n' '--- sanitizer/attribute configuration in tracked files ---'
rg -n -C 3 'ALLOWED_ATTR|allowedAttributes|allow.*tabindex|tabindex|sanitize-html|DOMPurify|sanitize' \
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printf '%s\n' '--- exact markdown rules ---'
sed -n '1,18p' apps/web/src/styles/_markdown.scss
sed -n '242,258p' apps/web/src/styles/_markdown.scss
printf '%s\n' '--- tracked render-helper and package files ---'
git ls-files | grep -E '(^|/)(render-helper|package(-lock)?\.json|yarn\.lock|pnpm-lock\.yaml)$' | head -200
printf '%s\n' '--- renderPostBody call-site markup ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
needle = "renderPostBody"
for p in Path("apps/web/src").rglob("*"):
if not p.is_file() or p.suffix not in {".ts", ".tsx", ".js", ".jsx"}:
continue
try:
lines = p.read_text().splitlines()
except Exception:
continue
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
if needle in line:
print(f"{p}:{i+1}")
for n in range(max(0, i-3), min(len(lines), i+4)):
print(f" {n+1}: {lines[n]}")
print()
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printf '%s\n' '--- local tabindex and sanitizer references only ---'
rg -n -C 2 'tabindex|tabIndex|DOMPurify|sanitize-html|ALLOWED_ATTR|allowedAttributes' \
apps/web/src apps/web/package.json package.json --glob '!**/*.map' --glob '!**/generated/**' | head -250Repository: ecency/vision-web
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cat packages/render-helper/package.json
printf '%s\n' '--- renderer implementation symbols ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- allowed attributes ---'
cat -n packages/render-helper/src/consts/allowed-attributes.const.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- render pipeline ---'
rg -n -C 8 'renderPostBody|sanitizeHtml|markdownToHtml|traverse' packages/render-helper/src/index.ts packages/render-helper/src/helper.ts packages/render-helper/src/markdown-2-html.ts packages/render-helper/src/methods/markdown-to-html.method.ts packages/render-helper/src/methods/sanitize-html.method.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- existing table and sanitizer tests ---'
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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re
css = Path("apps/web/src/styles/_markdown.scss").read_text()
table = re.search(r'(?ms)^\s+table\s*\{(.*?)^\s+\}', css)
assert table, "table rule not found"
table_rule = table.group(1)
for declaration in ("display: block;", "overflow-x: auto;", "width: 100%;", "max-width: 100%;"):
assert declaration in table_rule, f"missing {declaration}"
attrs = Path("packages/render-helper/src/consts/allowed-attributes.const.ts").read_text()
table_attrs = re.search(r"'table':\s*\[(.*?)\]", attrs, re.S)
assert table_attrs, "table whitelist not found"
assert "tabindex" not in table_attrs.group(1).lower(), "table tabindex unexpectedly allowed"
renderer = Path("apps/web/src/app/(dynamicPages)/entry/[category]/[author]/[permlink]/_components/entry-page-static-body.tsx").read_text()
assert "dangerouslySetInnerHTML" in renderer
assert "renderPostBody(entry.body" in renderer
assert "tabIndex" not in renderer and "tabindex" not in renderer
pipeline = Path("packages/render-helper/src/markdown-2-html.method.ts").read_text()
assert "return sanitizeHtml(output)" in pipeline
print("table CSS creates an overflow scroll container")
print("rendered tables have no allowed tabindex attribute")
print("static entry body injects renderer HTML into the .markdown-view div")
print("renderer applies sanitizeHtml to final output")
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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re
css = Path("apps/web/src/styles/_markdown.scss").read_text()
table = re.search(r'(?ms)^\s+table\s*\{(.*?)^\s+\}', css)
assert table, "table rule not found"
table_rule = table.group(1)
for declaration in ("display: block;", "overflow-x: auto;", "width: 100%;", "max-width: 100%;"):
assert declaration in table_rule, f"missing {declaration}"
attrs = Path("packages/render-helper/src/consts/allowed-attributes.const.ts").read_text()
table_attrs = re.search(r"'table':\s*\[(.*?)\]", attrs, re.S)
assert table_attrs, "table whitelist not found"
assert "tabindex" not in table_attrs.group(1).lower(), "table tabindex unexpectedly allowed"
renderer = Path("apps/web/src/app/(dynamicPages)/entry/[category]/[author]/[permlink]/_components/entry-page-static-body.tsx").read_text()
assert "dangerouslySetInnerHTML" in renderer
assert "renderPostBody(entry.body" in renderer
assert "tabIndex" not in renderer and "tabindex" not in renderer
pipeline = Path("packages/render-helper/src/methods/markdown-to-html.method.ts").read_text()
assert "return sanitizeHtml(output)" in pipeline
print("table CSS creates an overflow scroll container")
print("rendered tables have no allowed tabindex attribute")
print("static entry body injects renderer HTML into the .markdown-view div")
print("renderer applies sanitizeHtml to final output")
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Make the rendered table scroll region keyboard-accessible.
The renderer emits tables without a focusable attribute, and its sanitizer removes tabindex from <table>. Add tabindex="0" to the generated table and preserve it in the whitelist, or use a focusable overflow wrapper with visible :focus-visible styling. Add a regression test.
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In `@apps/web/src/styles/_markdown.scss` around lines 246 - 251, Make rendered
markdown tables keyboard-accessible by adding tabindex="0" to generated table
output and allowing that attribute in the sanitizer whitelist, or by introducing
a focusable overflow wrapper with visible :focus-visible styling. Add a
regression test covering keyboard focus and preserved table scrolling.
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Review follow-up on two counts. The GFM table rule deliberately skips single-cell tables, and the toolbar can produce one: insert a table, then deleteColumn and deleteRow. Such a table serialized to bare cell text, or to nothing at all when the cell was empty, so it disappeared on the next draft load or publish. GFM has no syntax for a headerless single-cell table, so a rule added after the plugin keeps it as HTML instead, which the renderer accepts and the sanitizer allows. Covered by three specs driving deleteColumn/deleteRow. The _markdown.scss change is reverted because the bug it claimed to fix does not exist. `.markdown-view` already sets `overflow-x: auto`, so a table wider than the post column has always scrolled inside the post body, with no page-level sideways scroll. The earlier measurement left that container rule out, which is the whole mechanism. Worse, the change regressed narrow tables: `display: block` keeps the table element at 100% while its rows fall back to an anonymous shrink-to-fit table box, so a 3-column table's visible grid collapsed from 702px to 78px. Measured in a headless browser both ways. Also addresses review nits on the spec: an explicit return type on the helper and an unambiguous delimiter character class.
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Correcting this PR: the bug it claims to fix does not exist, and I am recommending it be closed rather than merged. Details below, since the two P2 findings above are what led me to re-check the premise. The editor was never destroying tables
Re-run against develop's real That HTML body then renders through So what this PR actually does is change the stored representation from HTML to GFM markdown. That is a trade, not a fix, and per the second finding above it is a losing one: GFM cells hold inline content only, so a cell containing a list, a blockquote or multiple paragraphs degrades to On the CSS findingAlso correct, and the underlying premise was wrong too. Measured in a headless browser at a 700px column:
StatusThe branch now contains a single-cell rule and specs that only matter if the GFM conversion ships. If the markdown representation is wanted on its own merits, portable markdown that other Hive frontends can render, it should be a deliberate change with the block-content loss addressed first, not a bugfix. Marking as draft. Thanks to both reviewers, these findings were correct and caught a wrong diagnosis. |
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Closing. The re-review is correct on every point and I reached the same conclusion independently. I reproduced the nested-table loss it describes. Outer table in, through a real TipTap editor, out: The outer table is gone entirely, leaving loose Summary of why this is closed rather than fixed forward:
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Markdown tables were destroyed by the publish editor and clipped once rendered. Two independent defects, both fixed here.
1. The editor flattened every table
use-publish-editorserializes the document back to markdown on each update viamarkdownToHtml, whose Turndown instance registered only thestrikethroughGFM plugin. Turndown has no built-in table rule, so<table>was dropped and the cell text left as loose paragraphs. This hit both pasted tables and tables created with the toolbar's insert-table button.Before, on a 3-column table:
Registering
tablesalone was not sufficient. TipTap renders tables as<table><colgroup>...</colgroup><tbody>, keeping header cells as<th>in the firsttbodyrow rather than in a<thead>. The plugin's heading-row check only accepts atbodywhose previous sibling is absent or an empty<thead>, so thecolgroupmade it miss the header row and prepend an empty one:Stripping
<colgroup>before Turndown runs restores the check. It carries only editor column widths, which markdown cannot express.2. Wide tables were clipped with no way to scroll
overflow-x: autowas set on the<table>itself, but adisplay: tablebox is not a scroll container, so it never applied; theoverflow-hiddenutility in the same rule then clipped the overflow. Measured in the post column, an 18-column table needed 1732px inside 700px and the last column sat ~1030px outside the readable area, unreachable.display: blockmakes the table its own scroll container while its rows still lay out as a table internally.width: 100%is kept so tables that already fit render full-width exactly as before (width: max-contentwas rejected: it shrinks narrow tables from 700px to their content width and would change existing posts).Testing
table-roundtrip.spec.tsdrives a real TipTap editor with the same extension set as the publish editor, pastes a table throughparseAllExtensionsToDocand asserts the markdown survives serialization: rows stay on their own lines, the delimiter row is present, the real header is used, and cells are not flattened. A fourth case coversinsertTablefrom the toolbar.Not covered
Cell alignment is still dropped on publish. Remarkable emits
style="text-align:…"and the sanitizer setscss: falseto block style attributes outright, so---:columns publish left-aligned. That is a deliberate security posture in@ecency/render-helperand is left alone here.Summary by CodeRabbit
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