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Hi,

In all my empty table cells there is no placeholder displayed - even when I explicitly set by css.

I know I could define a css rule to manually display some content for empty elements. But I'mstill wondering why this seems not to work by default as it does for other elements!?

Thanks and regards,
Patrik

Hi Patrik,

Indeed we are quite reluctant to display the place holder text on the cell (because we considered that it looks ugly) although when you force from the CSS the place holder our code should obey your CSS property. I will add an internal issue for this.
In the meantime you can do something like this from the CSS:
Regards,
Radu

Hi Radu,

I agree, that for standard tables (e.g. in DITA) the placeholder is better to be hidden - especially when you have plenty of emptyy cells.

But when using custom XML (or specialized DITA) the placeholder is very useful - especially when you have a schematron rule complaining about empty elements, because without the paceholder there is no content to have the red underline.

However, using -oxy-placeholder-content works fine for me. So I consider this issue to be solved.

Thanks and regards,
Patrik