Question

The default HTML table exported from org-mode has this style:

<table border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="groups" frame="hsides">
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope="col">ID</th>
<th scope="col">First Name</th>
<th scope="col">Last Name</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Tom</td>
<td>Cruise</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Arnold</td>
<td>Schwarzenegger</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>Sylvester</td>
<td>Stallone</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Is there any way to make it more compact to be like this:

<table border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="groups" frame="hsides">
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope="col">ID</th>
<th scope="col">First Name</th>
<th scope="col">Last Name</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>1</td><td>Tom</td><td>Cruise</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>Arnold</td><td>Schwarzenegger</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>Sylvester</td><td>Stallone</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Since I have a very large size of table, the html file exported by the org-mode is simply too long all the way to the bottom.

Was it helpful?

Solution

A simple regex-replace on the html buffer does the job:

(defun compactify-html-table ()
  (interactive)
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "<\\(/?t[rd]\\)>\n<\\(/?t[rd]\\)>" nil t)
    (replace-match "<\\1><\\2>"))
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "\n\n" nil t)
    (replace-match "\n")))

UPD: how to apply to all open html buffers:

(defun compactify-all-html-buffers ()
  (interactive)
  (mapc
   (lambda(b)
     (with-current-buffer b
       (when (eq major-mode 'html-mode)
         (compactify-html-table))))
   (buffer-list)))

OTHER TIPS

Another solution is to tidy'fy the HTML output. With different parameters, you can get a more compact (and for sure, more consistent) presentation.

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