Pagedown: No entry in LoT when kable(..., format='html') is given.

[markanewman]

When I use the format = 'html' argument in Kable(), my entry for that table in the List of Tables is removed. This is problematic because things like library(kableExtra) set options(knitr.table.format = 'html') on load. As a workaround, options(knitr.table.format = NULL) is useful, but that causes its own challenges.

Example:

````rmd

title: "foo"
lot: true
output:
pagedown::html_paged:

toc: true

Iris {.chapter}

Does not have an entry in LoT

```{r}
knitr::kable(head(iris[, -5]), caption = 'An example table 1.', format = 'html')

Has an entry in LoT

```{r}
knitr::kable(head(iris[, -5]), caption = 'An example table 2.')

````

[cderv]

Yes currently the List of Table is only built for table written in Markdown in the document with a caption, and thus seen as table by Pandoc. (https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables)

The LOFT is built with a Lua filter that apply on the AST for Table element. A table in HTML is seen as Raw HTML by Pandoc and thus not scan for the reference to link to.

We would need to see how the Lua filter can be improve to support such tables.

[RLesur]

Another option would be to replace the LOFT Pandoc filter with a Paged.js hook.

[cderv]

Oh yes. could be easier maybe ? And JS easier to maintain than Lua filter ? 😅

[vidonne]

Same issue for our unhcr-report that we plan to use organization wide for reproductible analysis and reporting. We need to apply some classes to the tables them following our brand style but then they don't show up in the LoT.
knitr::kable(ref_idp_table, table.attr = "class=\"table\"", format = "html")

[cderv]

@vidonne thanks for sharing. This is something we indeed need to support more easily.

One thing is that Pandoc supports attributes for tables, but currently the Markdown syntax does not support it (https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/6317).

On R Markdown side, knitr::kable with format HTML is indeed the easiest to add classes but currently as a limitation of pagedown, it won't be picked up in the LOT.

As a work around for now, I think it can be done with post processing using Javascript or maybe a Lua filter to add the class you need to the tables. Using Fenced divs to help identify the div with tables.

Or maybe just wrap the table in fenced divs and modify the css. as example

````markdown

title: "R Notebook"
output:

html_document: default

::: table-striped-blue
```{r, echo = FALSE}
knitr::kable(mtcars, caption = "A table")

:::

```{css, echo = FALSE}
div.table-striped-blue > table > tbody > tr:nth-of-type(odd) {
  color: red;
}

````

Sorry for this limitation. We plan to fix that in the future.

[atusy]

@vidonne

If you use pandoc 2.10.1 or later, you can add classes to tables by lua filters

Example Rmd

````

title: "Untitled"
output:
pagedown::html_paged:
pandoc_args: null
- --lua-filter

- class_table.lua

Tables automatically gains the table classes

```{r, results='asis', echo=FALSE}
knitr::kable(mtcars[1, 1:2])

# Table gains inherit classes from wrapping Div

```{r, results='asis', echo=FALSE}
cat("::: {.special}")
knitr::kable(mtcars[1, 1:2])
cat(":::")

Lua filters

Remove the first function if you do not want to add the table class to all the tables.
Instead, you wrap a table with a Div element with the table class.

```{cat, engine.opts=list(file = "class_table.lua"), eval = TRUE}
-- add table class to tables
function Table(elem)
table.insert(elem.attr.classes, "table")
return elem
end

-- add arbitrary classes to tables
function Div(elem)
local content = elem.content
if (#content == 1) and (content[1].tag == "Table") then
for _,class in ipairs(elem.classes) do
table.insert(content[1].attr.classes, class)
end
return content[1]
end
end
```
````

[vidonne]

@cderv Thanks fixed it with some fenced div.