Table.Caption Property?

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1

Tommy,



I think it would be quite useful to support table captions like HTML
tables do. Currently, I have to alter the HTML so that it looks
like this:


This is the caption.
...

I treat the caption as a text segment outside the table, but this is not ideal since it won't get the table's styles (at least not without a lot of code to accomplish this). Will you consider adding a Caption property that makes it easier to render table captions?

Thanks, Natan
2

Dear Natan,

Thanks for your suggestion.

In fact there is a "Title" property in the Table class but it can't work well. What I do to add a caption or title to table is just add a paragraph before the table. What do you mean by "it won't get the table's styles"?

3

Tommy,



I didn’t notice the Title property before. If I set the Title
property, will it render the title outside the table like a caption?



In reference to “getting the table’s styles”, a class applied to a table will cascade down to the caption. For example:



This is the caption.
...


In order to render a table caption, I have to manually move the line of HTML outside the table so that it renders a text paragraph before it sees the table. Then I have to copy the table's class to make sure it looks the way a web browser would display it. For example, I convert the code above into:

This is the caption.

...


This is a hassle and it would be better if your component made it easier to render captions.

Thanks, Natan
4

Thanks for the detailed info. I will consider this issue. If you set

, should all the content in the table be red, including text and border?

5

If you assign the following class to the

tag, everything inside the table is red (including the caption).



.red

{

color: Red;

border: 1px solid #FF0000;

}



In other words, classes assigned to the
tag cascade hierarchically to elements contained within the tag.
6

Thanks for your detailed info. I will consider supporting this next month.