BIDI: Tables should align to corresponding direction when base language direction is set

[Damian]

When setting a table's base language direction, its alignment should also be set to correspond to the direction.

E.g. When setting the base language direction to RTL the table alignment should switch to align=right.

The alignment can then be overridden by a user if they wish.

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

There is an important issue with this though. As soon as the table receives the align="right" attribute, it starts "floating", so the rest of the text contents will be rendered at the same vertical space as it is.

Let me try to illustrate it, having a table between two paragraphs:

Expected results:
+-----------------------------+
| Para 1.                     |
|             +--------------+|
|             |       |      ||
|             +--------------+|
|             |       |      ||
|             +--------------+|
| Para 2.                     |
+-----------------------------+

Actual results:
+-----------------------------+
| Para 1.                     |
| Para 2.     +--------------+|
|             |       |      ||
|             +--------------+|
|             |       |      ||
|             +--------------+|
+-----------------------------+

That's most probably the reason why HTML handles the situation the way we have it currently in the editor.

So, in a mixed content environment, I would just leave it as is, leaving the alignment option to the user. Any other alignment solution would not be compatible with the features we have in the table dialog currently.

Thoughts?

[Damian]

Ok, I understand the problem, and it seems valid to me.

Perhaps what we should do here is check to see if a table already has an alignment set, and reverse it if it does. If there is no alignment on the table, we should leave it up to the user to set the alignment.

How does that sound?

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Replying to damo:

How does that sound?

The right ticket for it is #6043. I've opened a discussion there.

[Damian]

Considering that #6043 does not address table alignment. Is there anything we can do about tables here?