Tables and conditional tags

Question

I am having trouble displaying a table after I apply
conditional tags. The error does not occur until after I apply tags
to hide rows. It does not occur if I'm hiding just text within a
cell. I am not applying the tags to the table, just content and
then just a row of cells.
I have tested this and if I'm tagging only the content within
the cell the table maintains the width of the cell and table.
However, when I apply tags to hide a whole row, the table and cells
shrink to 1/4 of the size.
I am using RH7. I have used tags in previous versions and
have not run across this problem before.
Does anyone have any idea why applying tags to hide a row is
creating this issue?
Cindy

Answer 1

It seems like the conditional tags in tables does not work
for me via WYSIWYG. When I selected the row, regardless of whether
it was highlighting the cell from top left to lower right or from
selecting the whole row from hovering on the left til the arrow
appeared, the row tag (<TR>) was not not being picked up,
only the cells (<TD>) therefore, only each individual cell
was getting the conditional tag versus the whole row.
So when the output was selected, the table didn't know what
to do because it looked like it was condensing the row to
0...meaning it saw a row with no columns. It got confused because
it looked like I wanted the columns to be hidden in one view, but
not the row.
To solve this problem (at least in RH7) so that the table
would not shrink to 1/4 of the stated width, I removed all the
conditional tags, then in HTML applied the x-condition: Tag; to the
row (<TR>), not to the cells (<TD>). The row is the
only part of the code that has the conditional tag, the cells do
not have the tag.
Although tedious because my tables are long, it has worked
perfectly on 3 of the tables I have done this to so far.
Not sure why the WYISWYG view is not grabbing the rows, but
at least I have a work around that I can live with.