[Item] Table-Formatting is not applied.

[JAC28]

Description

When creating a template with a table, I noticed that the formatting that can be seen in the template preview is apparently not applied or only partially applied when the note is used.

I have attached a simple template that extracts a few bibliographic information into a table with a formatted header.

Screenshots

Preview in the Template-Editor

Created Note (Select Entry -> Create Item Note from Template)

Test on Zotero version

7.0.7

Test on Better Notes version

2.0.17

Template Type

Item

Template Share Code

# This template is specifically for importing/sharing, using better 
# notes 'import from clipboard': copy the content and
# goto Zotero menu bar, click Tools->New Template from Clipboard.  
# Do not copy-paste this to better notes template editor directly.
name: "[item]TestColoredTable"
zoteroVersion: "7.0.7"
pluginVersion: "2.0.17"
savedAt: "2024-10-21T10:29:55.341Z"
content: |-
  // @use-markdown
  <!-- Preface -->
  // @author https://github.com/JAC28
  
  // @default-begin
  <!-- Title -->
  <h1> 0 Table-Test </h1>
  <h2> Metadata </h2>
  <p>
  <table id="titleData">
  <tr style='background-color: #008c4f; color: #ffffff' ><th>Param</th><th>Value</th></tr>
  <tr>
  	<th>Title</th><td>${topItem.getField("title")}</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  	<th>Authors</th><td>${topItem.getCreators().slice(0, 2).map((v) => v.firstName + " " + v.lastName).join(", ") + (topItem.getCreators().length > 2 ? " et al." : "")}</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  	<th>Journal</th><td>${topItem.getField('publicationTitle')}</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  	<th>Year</th><td>${topItem.getField("date").split('T')[0].split('-')[0]}</td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  </p>
  
  
  <h2>Notes</h2>
  <br>
  
  // @afterloop-begin
  ${{if (_env.dryRun){
  	return ""}
  	else {
  		targetNoteItem.addTag('TabularEvaluation');
  	return ""}
  	}}$
  // @afterloop-end

Anything else

No response

[windingwind]

See examples like #1155

[JAC28]

Thank you for the quick and helpful answer. To document the solution:

Despite the correct formatting within the template preview e.g. based on styling for the total table row such as

<tr style='background-color: #008c4f; color: #ffffff' ><th>Param</th><th>Value</th></tr>

the styling is not applied correctly to the created note. Instead, the formatting has to be defined for each cell individually. For the given application, for example:

<tr><th style='background-color: #008c4f; color: #ffffff' >Param</th><th style='background-color: #008c4f; color: #ffffff' >Value</th></tr>