🔄 Table Toggling Feature

✨ Overview

The Table Toggling feature enables seamless switching between Content Tables and Layout Tables within CKEditor. This allows for flexible table usage while maintaining a user-friendly UI.

🛠️ Functionality

• Toggling Behavior

  • Users can switch between Content Table and Layout Table.
  • Some data loss is expected (e.g., captions, <th> elements).
  • Table dimensions (columns, width, etc.) remain unchanged.
  • Integrators should NOT be warned about potential data loss.

• UI Implementation

  • The tableProperties button is transformed into a split button.
  • Clicking the arrow expands a dropdown menu with:
    • Content Table
    • Layout Table
  • Similar approach to the file upload icon.
  • Implemented via TableLayout, which overrides the default component.

🎯 Key Considerations

• Predicting Use Cases:
  • Introducing toggling as an option now is preferable to avoid future complexity.
• Technical Approach:
  • Follows the same logic as other toolbar split buttons.
• Warnings & Constraints:
  • Inform integrators about data loss risks.
  • Ensure a smooth transition without breaking layouts.

🏗️ Next Steps

• Implement UI changes in tableProperties.
• Integrate TableLayout override.
• Test edge cases for switching behavior.

📌 Question: Should we allow customization of the transition behavior (e.g., preserving some attributes)? 🤔

Parent issue #18132