Html table plugin

[eluser]sophistry[/eluser]
use your own browser to test what happens when you don't emit a TD tag inside a table that is "expecting" one (i.e., no colspan attributes anywhere). what does your browser show? mine (safari 3 and 4, firefox) shows no border when there is no TD tag. so, it's unexpected behavior for a table rendering function to emit a table that has missing tags (regardless of what's in them).

two things:
1) missing TD tag inside a table - my browsers show no border on the cell even if you use CSS.
the developer/designer could try this CSS to make up for the lack of TD tags but it wouldn't work (not in firefox and not in safari) CSS cannot cure missing TD tags, but it does cure empty cells by giving them a border.

Code:

table { empty-cells:show; }

2) empty value inside TD tag - allow the developer to specify what to include in empty cells as an option. just put it in a class var like in the CI table class.

cheers.