Right, understood. I agree that the "table" class enables a distinction 
between layout tables and real ones. My case is DOCX -> HTML, however, 
something like:

pandoc -s sourcetest.docx --reference-doc=custom-reference.docx --extract-
media=./ --css=css/spectre.css -t html -o sourcetest.html

If the HTML writer were to add the "table" class universally, then tables 
used for layout *in the source DOCX* would end up with borders (assuming 
Bootstrap et al).

On Thursday, 31 January 2019 10:09:36 UTC-5, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>
> To be more precise:  The suggestion above was just to 
> add the 'table' class to the default HTML output, not 
> to docx output. 
>
> I believe the reason bootstrap et al only style tables 
> with class 'table' is to distinguish "real" tables 
> from tables used for layout (e.g. columns) in HTML. 
> However, it seems to me that all pandoc-produced 
> tables should be real tables. There may be exceptions, 
> though -- do people use pandoc tables for layout in 
> HTML? 
>
> John MacFarlane <j...-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> > Adding a 'table' class wouldn't affect docx output 
> > unless we specifically modified the docx writer to behave 
> > differently in that case. 
> > 
> > Ken Dow <theke...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
> > 
> >> It's not uncommon for people to use unbordered tables for layout in 
> DOCX. 
> >> Adding a "table" class automatically would produce HTML borders where 
> they 
> >> weren't intended. 
> >> 
> >> In your first response to this, you suggested "insert it into a Div 
> with 
> >> attributes". Is there some way to achieve that with a DOCX source? 
> >> 
> >> On Thursday, 31 January 2019 00:11:10 UTC-5, John MacFarlane wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> Ken <theke...-97jfqw80gc5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
> >>> 
> >>> > That would be great - it comes up because frameworks like Bootstrap 
> and 
> >>> Spectre uses <table class=“table”> to apply their styling. 
> >>> 
> >>> That's true.  It's tempting to just add that class by 
> >>> default in the HTML writer...  I wonder if that would 
> >>> cause any problems? 
> >>> 
> >>> 
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