Merging cells right / left might provide to broken layout

[jodator]

The above actions will produce such table:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>a</td>
        <td colspan="2">bc</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2">ab</td>
        <td>c</td>
    </tr>
</table>

which is rendered as:

I don't really know if this issue is important or easy to fix.

[Reinmar]

This is funny. I guess that the "merge left" option should not be enabled. It allows breaking the table layout so it should be disabled.

[jodator]

This is funny. I guess that the "merge left" option should not be enabled. It allows breaking the table layout so it should be disabled.

Yeah... but the tricky part is how to detect such case?

[Reinmar]

You know the layout of the table. So you can also predict what applying this command will cause to it. Am I right?

[jodator]

You know the layout of the table. So you can also predict what applying this command will cause to it. Am I right?

Right now it seems to me that you'd have to check some special case of missing column (the table should have 3 columns) but this one has 2 cells in each row (as I'm writing it - maybe it is not such complex case after all...) and with rows it is straight forward as table cells are child of tableRow element. For columns we have to guess...

[jodator]

ps.: similar thing happens in CKEditor 4

[jodator]

Might get fixed by: #6609.

[CKEditorBot]

There has been no activity on this issue for the past year. We've marked it as stale and will close it in 30 days. We understand it may be relevant, so if you're interested in the solution, leave a comment or reaction under this issue.

[CKEditorBot]

We've closed your issue due to inactivity over the last year. We understand that the issue may still be relevant. If so, feel free to open a new one (and link this issue to it).