Add a configurable Switch/Flag to disable auto-padding of table-cells

SpocWeb · May 8, 2024, 2:12pm

Hi, thank you very much for supporting WYSIWYG-Tables natively.
But your latest adjustment of auto-padding table-cells to the same width
was a breaking change and creates friction, not only with me.

Please as a switch so that we can disable that. That should not be much of an effort.

Problems:

modifies all Rows, creating churn in versioning Systems
breaks Plugin Table-Extended GitHub - aidenlx/table-extended: Extend basic table in Obsidian with MultiMarkdown table syntax
- this Plugin is the only one left with ColSpan / RowSpan Rendering
- alternatively support ColSpan / RowSpan directly

allroundninja · July 25, 2024, 10:32am

+1.

It’s a good feature to have, but it’s not suitable for all users.

The additional auto-generated characters make the source mode view take up unnecessary screen estate for those who appreciate a minimal view. This can be particularly bothersome when a cell contains one long line or multiple lines.
Auto-cleanup with a regex search and replace is a bit tedious and perhaps tricky in certain cases.
An increase in file size may be disliked, even though the impact is minimal. One could argue this has an unnecessary impact on those who do not benefit from auto-padding when only using the live view editor.