QuillJS table

Test lab for creating TABLE functionality in QuillJS using Containers.

Code of quill is included in project so we can easily play with it in our tests.

What the previous developers fixed

• Denied Backspace inside an empty cell
• Added ability to delete a table

What would be nice to add/fix

• the ability to insert tables. Inserts even from Word
• ctrl+z is still breaking table

Usage

see example demo.js

// import module
import TableModule from "quill-table-tbf"

// register module
Quill.register("modules/table", TableModule);

// add toolbar controls in Toolbar module options
[
        {
            table: TableModule.tableOptions()
        },
        {
            table: ["append-row", "append-col", "remove-col", "remove-row"]
        }
]

// add keboard bindings in Keyboard options

keyboard: {
            bindings: {
                backspace: {
                    key: "backspace",
                    handler: (range, keycontext) =>
                        TableModule.keyboardHandler("backspace", range, keycontext)
                },
                delete: {
                    key: "delete",
                    handler: (range, keycontext) =>
                        TableModule.keyboardHandler("delete", range, keycontext)
                }
            }
        }

For development

yarn install

yarn build

Check is it actual or not:

Progress so far

• TABLE, TR and TD are containers - it is possible to have multiple block blots in TD.
• all tables, rows and cells are identified by random strings and optimize merge only those with the same id.
• It is possible to add tables by defining rows and cols count in grid.
• It is possible to add rows and columns to existing tables (accessible by buttons in toolbar).
• it is possible to copy & paste table from Word. Works ok. Needs to test edge cases.

Known issues

It is early stage so there is a lot of issues with current state. Still there are some worth to mention which should be dealt with.

• Lists (number or bullet) in cell upon enter loose list format on previous line but keeps it on actual.
• Delete and backspace behavior on tables should be either disabled or should have some well defined behavior. Now it is pretty easy to destroy table in ugly way.
• Definition of TableTrick is hacked in just to test if adding of rows and cols is easily possible - which is. Should be done differently so quill doesn't throw exception (it continues to work).
• Undo/History breaks badly with cell deletions (disabled backspace could solve this).
• When loading delta of nested container in table cell, nested container loose format.
• Containers need order similar to Inline.order. Otherwise delta is not canonical.
• ...