Thanks!

> I suppose we could keep track of the width of the containing cell and
recompute based on that.

This seems like the right thing to do.

> You can submit a bug report if you like.

OK.

On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 at 12:16, John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:

> The `width: 44%` comes in because the nested table is 44% of the overall
> column width.
>
> Browsers then interpret this as 44% of the containing cell, I guess, which
> is why you get the odd output.
>
> I don't see a good solution here.  The problem is that 44% will be
> interpreted relative to line length in other formats (e.g. Markdown,
> LaTeX), so we don't want to change the markdown reader so that it assigns
> this embedded table a higher relative width.  Nor is it clear how we'd
> change the HTML writer to interpret this width differently.  I suppose we
> could keep track of the width of the containing cell and recompute based on
> that.  You can submit a bug report if you like.
>
> > On Jul 22, 2022, at 1:00 PM, William Lupton <wlupton-QSt+ys/nuMyEUIsrzH9SisXa4x6EXUF0@public.gmane.orgg>
> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > [Forked from
> https://groups.google.com/g/pandoc-discuss/c/5O6iYmUwFJ8/m/biiwj2njAAAJ]
> >
> > In the above thread I presented the grid.md example shown at the bottom
> of this message. I also couldn't resist trying another level of nesting,
> resulting in the grid2.md example shown below. This works, but I'm
> wondering whether there's a bug (in the HTML writer) relating to how nested
> grid table widths are calculated:
> >       • pandoc -s grid2.md -o grid2.html gives the first image shown
> below the markdown, in which the nested grid table has a scroll bar
> >       • The table and column widths are as shown immediately below and
> I'm wondering where the width:44% came from. Removing it gives the second
> image below the markdown (no scroll bar)
> > I'm not seriously suggesting actually using a text editor to create
> deeply nested tables such as these... but given that it works I wanted to
> understand what was going on with the table width calculation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > William
> >
> > % xmllint -format grid2.html | egrep -e '<(\/?table|col )'
> >     <table style="width:79%;">
> >         <col style="width: 18%"/>
> >         <col style="width: 11%"/>
> >         <col style="width: 50%"/>
> >             <table style="width:44%;">
> >                 <col style="width: 18%"/>
> >                 <col style="width: 26%"/>
> >                     <table>
> >                     </table>
> >             </table>
> >     </table>
> >
> > grid2.md
> >
> > +------------+-------+-----------------------------------+
> > | Fruit      | Price | Advantages                        |
> > +============+=======+===================================+
> > | Bananas    | $1.34 | - built-in wrapper                |
> > |            |       | - bright color                    |
> > +------------+-------+-----------------------------------+
> > | Oranges    | $2.10 | - cures scurvy                    |
> > |            |       | - tasty                           |
> > +------------+-------+-----------------------------------+
> > | Apple (pi) | $3.14 | +------------+------------------+ |
> > |            |       | | One        | Two              | |
> > |            |       | +============+==================+ |
> > |            |       | | my         | table            | |
> > |            |       | +------------+------------------+ |
> > |            |       | | is         | | Three | Four | | |
> > |            |       | |            | |-------+------| | |
> > |            |       | |            | | very  | nice | | |
> > |            |       | +------------+------------------+ |
> > +------------+-------+-----------------------------------+
> >
> > <Screenshot 2022-07-22 at 11.46.56.png>
> >
> > <Screenshot 2022-07-22 at 11.57.56.png>
> >
> > grid.md
> >
> > +---------------+---------------+--------------------+
> > | Fruit         | Price         | Advantages         |
> > +===============+===============+====================+
> > | Bananas       | $1.34         | - built-in wrapper |
> > |               |               | - bright color     |
> > +---------------+---------------+--------------------+
> > | Oranges       | $2.10         | - cures scurvy     |
> > |               |               | - tasty            |
> > +---------------+---------------+--------------------+
> > | Apple (pi)    | $3.14         | | One | Two   |    |
> > |               |               | |-----+-------|    |
> > |               |               | | my  | table |    |
> > |               |               | | is  | nice  |    |
> > +---------------+---------------+--------------------+
> >
> > <Screenshot 2022-07-20 at 23.36.36.png>
> >
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