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When I copy an existing table (4 columns, 5 rows) in the JCE Editor (WYSIWYG view) and then paste. The width and style properties in the pasted table are "defaulted" and I need them to remain empty, as they are in the table I copied.

Is there any way to configure this?

The table width attribute appears to be defaulting to the current width of the editor (1146px in my case) and the style attribute is defaulting to font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; width: 1146px; - which crucially contains the width property as well! This then overrides the class that is applied to the table.

I've checked the configuration options for the JCE Editor, but I cannot find any settings for these two properties. Where is it getting these values from?

Incidentally, these properties are only defaulted when I copy and paste the table. If I create a new table then these properties do not default and remain empty.

JCE Editor 2.5.2 (current)

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  • Are you using the latest version of JCE Editor (2.5.2)? And are you pasting your table code into the Source Code section? I have just tried installing a fresh copy of JCE Editor, pasting your cod, and it works fine.
    – Lodder
    Commented Aug 11, 2015 at 15:43
  • @Lodder Yes, I'm using JCE Editor 2.5.2. As stated, I'm using the WYSIWYG view (this is a repeated action that needs to be performed by a non-technical end user). Yes, if I use the Source Code view I can paste whatever I like and nothing gets defaulted or changed.
    – MrWhite
    Commented Aug 11, 2015 at 16:20
  • When I have to paste complicated html, I use the source editor.
    – FFrewin
    Commented Aug 11, 2015 at 16:49
  • It seems the width of the table is defaulting to the width of the editor "container" at the time the table is copied.
    – MrWhite
    Commented Aug 11, 2015 at 17:05

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OMG! The JCE Editor was just being annoyingly clever!

The table in question has a particular class applied to it. This class is copied across no problem, however, in my editor.css this class is defined as having width:100%. When pasting the table with this class already applied, it seems it was calculating the width as 100% the width of the editor viewport (1146px as stated above)!! Reducing this to width:50% resulted in a width half that.

It seems that for any percentage width, the editor was calculating the corresponding px width! If I set a fixed width in the CSS eg. width:960px then the editor did not default anything.

My workaround is to change width:100% in editor.css to min-width:100% - the styles still work as intended and the editor does not try to default the width!

This would seem to be very "clever", however, I can't for the life of me think why anyone would want this?

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