Specify an 'id' for a table in Markdown reader to go into the <table> tag in HTML writer?

[marcink]

I use pandoc to convert Markdown to HTML self-contained pages.

I currently use auto layout for column width in tables, which has limited milage. I am looking to impose some manual column width formatting for specific columns in specific tables. I can select specific columns using CSS, but need to identify which table to apply this to. Typically this is done using <table id="id_label">.

Is there any way to specify an id for a single table (pipe_table type in Markdown)?

I am open to other solutions.

[jgm]

Currently not directly.
However, you could put your table in a fenced div with an id and select it as #ident > table

[jgm]

It's also possible to write a small Lua filter that will move the id attribute from the fenced div to the table itself.

[marcink]

Thanks for the ideas. I'll figure something out.

[rnwst]

In addition to John's suggestions, you could also use this filter to add Ids to Tables. While the filter is for cross-references, it also allows you to specify Table Attrs in table captions. This is done like this:

Table: Table caption. {#id .class key=val}

FirstCol    SecondCol
----------  -----------
FirstCell   SecondCell

If you only want to run the code responsible for applying the table attributes, you could copy the parse_table_attr function and create a separate filter from that.

[marcink]

thanks, that looks promissing.