Table captions beneath the table (not above)

[kaysgericht]

Is it possible to have the table captions (table 1 : xxx) positioned under the table and not above?

I crawled through the sources, but wasn't able to get the result i wished for

Thanks for all your great work on this project.

Regards

[mojavelinux]

Not at the moment, though I agree it would be a nice feature. I think in general we should be able to use the theme to control the caption placement (above or below).

To proceed, we need to decide how we are going to declare this. Recall that the theme tries to be as faithful as possible to CSS, so perhaps we can use something like:

table:
  caption:
    side: bottom

(See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/caption-side for the property we're emulating).

This is related to #307.

[mojavelinux]

Thanks for all your great work on this project.

Thanks for appreciating it!

[kaysgericht]

Wow, that was fast :)

Thanks for the quick response!

[mojavelinux]

The only downside is that we won't be able to guarantee that the caption stays on the same page as the table. That would require knowing ahead of time the height of the rendered table, which would require doing a dry run. I fear that would dramatically slow down conversion. Instead, to support this feature, we might want to see if prawn-table could give us a hook to decide whether or not to advance to the next page before rendering a row.

[mojavelinux]

Of course, I realized that we don't keep the caption on the same page as the table now...so we're not losing any behavior yet ;)

[siddjain]

@mojavelinux it looks like this is done? could you please provide an example how to use this feature?

[mojavelinux]

My first comment shows an example. Here's a complete theme example:

extends: default
table:
  caption:
    side: bottom

[siddjain]

@mojavelinux, I was expecting an example of the form: [id=my-table, what-do-i-insert-here-so-that-table-caption-is-displayed-at-bottom?] .My table |=== 3+^| blah 3+^| blah ^| blah ^| blah ^| blah |=== I tried caption-side=bottom but that doesn't work.

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[mojavelinux]

It cannot be controlled from the content, so I cannot provide any such example. It can only be controlled from the theme. And that setting is global.