How to prevent Confluence 4.x from inserting paragraphs around table elements inserted via wiki markup

[Bob Swift [Bob Swift Atlassian Add-ons]]

1. Edit a page and select Insert -> Wiki Markup
2. Add table markup like

   || AA || 
   | bb |

3. Results in a table that when viewed as source looks like:

   <table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><th class="confluenceTh"><p>AA</p></th></tr><tr><td class="confluenceTd"><p>bb</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

4. This is different than Confluence 3.x and different that what is produced using native table insert

Another question is how to you edit the page to remove the extra <p> that are inserted?

This seems like a bug.

[David Simpson]

You could try doing it client-side :)

Something like this:

AJS.$('.confluenceTh > p,.confluenceTd > p').children().unwrap();

[David Simpson]

Sorry, I didn't quite get what you meant by native table insert. Likely that won't work :(

[Bob Swift [Bob Swift Atlassian Add-ons]]

Thanks, I just mean using insert table natively in the confluence editor.

[tousif shaikh]

Hi,

i am also facing the same problem i have few user macros i want to fetch the contents between thoes where the </p> tags get added its not unexpected.

[Bill McAvinney]

This is a kludge. It doesn't prevent Confluence from adding the <p>s, but it does prevent them from showing on your pages:

If you already have a stylesheet you use add to it:

.noP p {
  display:none;
}

If you don't have a stylesheet, add the following at the top of each page where you have the issue:

{style}
  .noP p {
   display:none;
}
{style}

Then wrap your tables with a div of class noP like so,

{div:class=noP}
{table}
…
{table}
{div}

[Bob Swift [Bob Swift Atlassian Add-ons]]

Could someone from Atlassian comment on this behavior?