Title: [Plugin: Front-end Editor] Problems editing tables
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Front-end Editor] Problems editing tables

 *  [schmunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schmunk/)
 * (@schmunk)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problems-editing-tables/)
 * Hi guys
    Great plugin this!
 * I have a problem editing tables with Front end editor. If i have a wordpress 
   page or post with a table in (which i have just pasted from excel or other table
   format)
 * Front end editor doesn’t really work on those tables.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/)
 * What i need is just to be able to edit numbers in tables in front-end. Is there
   another way if front end editor doesn’t work?

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 *  Plugin Author [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problems-editing-tables/#post-2477599)
 * Did you paste that table into the WordPress TinyMCE editor in the admin or directly
   into the Aloha editor on the front-end?
 * Are you able to edit the table with TinyMCE?
 *  Thread Starter [schmunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schmunk/)
 * (@schmunk)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problems-editing-tables/#post-2477662)
 * hmmm, i did just paste it from excel into the wordpress backend editor. What 
   i have found out is that the code is full of styling. Width, colors, bold etc…
   This styling is what makes front end editor not work.
 * So i guess the best way to solve this is to use CLEAN tables only with the data
   in them.
 * Might there be a way to clean up a imported table? Maybe some kind of parsing
   procedure.
 *  Thread Starter [schmunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schmunk/)
 * (@schmunk)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problems-editing-tables/#post-2477668)
 * But, i still want to find out what part of the styling it is that disturbs front-
   end editor. Because i would still like to add classes to rows like: odd, even.
   And i need to add column no.
 * I will make som trials 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problems-editing-tables/#post-2477670)
 * I remember that TinyMCE had a “Copy from Word” button. I think Aloha has something
   like this too, but it’s not enabled by default.
 * If you find something relevant, please report the issue upstream, to the Aloha
   developers:
 * [https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/issues](https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/issues)

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problems-editing-tables/#post-2477670)
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