Tables in visual editor get scaling boxes

[AdamCapriola]

If a simple table is created through the text editor, when I place the cursor inside a table cell while using the visual editor (WordPress 3.9, Chrome on Mac) the scaling boxes that now appear around images also appear around the table.

This wasn't expected behavior to me; are tables considered "media"?

Simple table example:

<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>A</td>
<td>B</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Cursor not in cell:

Cursor in cell:

[SergeyBiryukov]

This happens in TinyMCE demo as well: ​http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/full.php.

[nacin]

Moving to 3.9.1 for review/investigation/discussion.

[iseulde]

One situation in which this is useful is when your theme doesn't add width: 100%; for table in editor-style.css. I'd be really difficult if you can't put you cursor in one of the table cells. That doesn't make it the right solution though.

If the theme sets the width: 100%;, the horizontal and diagonal scaling boxes are useless.

Scaling boxes would also be useful if you could align tables, but currently that's not possible.

[iseulde]

Above a screenshot of a table added with the table plugin when a there is no width: 100%;.

[helen]

I get them in the TinyMCE 3.x demo, and also in WordPress before 3.9: ​http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/3_x/full.php

I guess it's kind of weird in some ways, but I'm not sure this is really a bug.

[azaozz]

Yes, not a recent change. I believe this is the same as image resizing in contenteditable mode. There is native support in Firefox and IE and TinyMCE adds it to WebKit.

[azaozz]

This is the expected behavior, same as resizing images. Presently there's no way to enable resizing for images but disable it for tables (might be possible in newer browsers).