Ah! you are right Mark. Yes, it was an issue of space or a newline. In my tiddler text the table did not have an empty line before it. The text i pasted over here got a newline when I tidied it up for readability. Adding the same to my tiddler got the intended result.
Thank you Mark! On Sunday, September 24, 2017 at 9:34:37 AM UTC-4, Mark S. wrote: > > The problem with the cut/paste way of presenting your problem is that you > may have changed something subtlety. Your code works fine when I try it. > Also, I can't tell of course if your tiddler is a standard tiddler. It > might help to export your template tiddler as a tid or JSON and then add it > as a file to your post. > > I'm guessing that you had spaces or non-visible characters at the end of > your table structure that prevented it from formatting correctly, which got > trimmed away when you pasted it into the forum. > > You're brain seems to be doing fine! > > Good luck! > Mark > > On Sunday, September 24, 2017 at 4:08:41 AM UTC-7, passingby wrote: >> >> Hello guys, >> I am trying to learn to manipulate TW5 and it seems to be proving a tough >> job. Maybe my brain is not what it used to be. Mainly I cannot find >> examples to learn from, and sometimes from the point where I stand right >> now, an example might have many different elements (mainly the widgets) >> that need to be understood. Anyways, I thought instead of wasting whole >> weekend searching and getting tired, why not ask over here. One short and >> quick answer might go a long way. >> >> So I am trying to achieve what I could achieve TWC back in the day :-) ie >> creating 2 templates, an EventViewTemplate and an EventEditTemplate. These >> templates would be used on a tiddler which would be tagged 'event'. >> For now I just want to know If I put this is TestViewTemplate (a practice >> tiddler to try out things): >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> <$list filter="[is[current]tag[test]]"> >> >> @@background-color:yellow; >> Hello, my title is {{!!title}} >> @@ >> >> ''this should be bold'' >> >> __this should be underlined__ >> >> |this|is|a table| >> |some|data|in the table| >> >> </$list> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> and then create another tiddler tagged 'test' then I notice that bold and >> underlining works as intended BUT the table does not render as a table. Why >> is this? >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6c09d502-d4b0-490a-8a57-4a32d1912018%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.