Normalising tables...

[bensquire]

Hey all; I'm working on a problem and was hoping for a little advice or maybe validation.

We're using plate to build an editor that is ultimately turned into Markdown. Because of this we've built a plugin that removes invalid Elements from tables (such as codeblocks); that works well enough. The next problem we're trying to address is removing <p> tags, the MD converter we're using implodes whenever it see's one within a td/th.

I have managed to successfully strip out paragraphs and put their content directly into the table cell, but this causes other problems. If a user selects some text and chooses codeblock (for example) the codeblock replaces the td/th, which breaks the structure of the DOM.

Sooo... yeah whats the best way to address this? Do I replace <p> tags with some sort of editableVoid? Do I somehow overwrite the html serialiser for <p> tags so they dissapear inside table cells? Or is there some other really clean way to address this?

Thanks in advance!

[bensquire]

We worked round this by creating a new type of element (TABLE_PARAGRAPH) which is basically rendered as a

tag within slate, but when serialized to HTM, removed. This ultimately allows us to preserve our markdown structure.