How to generate <table class="table">

[ferrecromain]

Hello,

I was a Wyam user, and I recently migrated to Statiq.
Before the markdown tables was generated into HTML like this: <table class="table"> but now with Statiq it is just <table>

As I continue to use bootstrap, I would like to know how to customize the table tag.

Thanks in advance.

[Foxtrek64]

Does kramdown format work?

| A simple | table |
| with multiple | lines|
{: .my-class }

This would generate <table class="my-class">...</table>

[ferrecromain]

Thank you @Foxtrek64 for your suggestion, indeed it can work like that.

But is there a way to configure it implicitly? By editing the pipeline or something else?

[daveaglick]

Welcome from Wyam! This is one of the areas where Statiq (and specifically Statiq Web) is significantly more powerful than Wyam. Files are rendered based on their content type using something called templates. These templates can be easily modified or added without having to resort to tweaking pipelines or anything.

In your case, Statiq doesn't assume anything about CSS (we have users on bespoke, Tailwind, etc.) but this should do the trick to add the Bootstrap Markdown plugin back via the template used for Markdown files:

using Markdig.Extensions.Bootstrap;

// ...

Bootstrapper bootstrapper = Bootstrapper.Factory
    .CreateWeb(args)
    .ModifyTemplate(
        MediaTypes.Markdown,
        x => ((RenderMarkdown)x).UseExtension<BootstrapExtension>());

[ferrecromain]

Yes, you are right. I appreciate the new ways to configure a website under Statiq, but sometimes I'm lost 😄.

Thank you @daveaglick for your very complete answer, I took time to understand this template mechanism and especially UseExtension<T>, we can imagine developing our own extensions very easily by implementing IMarkdownExtension, that's a good thing.

Using BootstrapExtension solved the problem, as we can see in the class code :

if (node is Tables.Table)
{
    node.GetAttributes().AddClass("table");
}

[daveaglick]

I actually got nerd sniped on this a bit too and just added support for a new MarkdownExtensions metadata key that can be used in the settings file or per-document in front matter:

settings.yml:

MarkdownExtensions:
  - Bootstrap

This will go out with the next release (not sure when I'll publish it).