Complex To Plain Table

JavaScript library which can be used to simplify complex tables by splitting merged cells. Table cells which are merged by colspan and rowspan attributes will be duplicated including cell content.

Installation

npm install complex-to-plain-table --save

How to use it

var complexToPlainTable = require("complex-to-plain-table")
complexToPlainTable(document.querySelector('table'));

Tests

npm test

Example

Table input:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="3">1</td>
        <td>4</td>
        <td rowspan="3">5</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>1</td>
        <td rowspan="2">2</td>
        <td>3</td>
        <td>4</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td rowspan="2">1</td>
        <td>3</td>
        <td>4</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="3">2</td>
        <td>5</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>1</td>
        <td>2</td>
        <td colspan="3">3</td>
    </tr>
</table>

1			4	5
1	2	3	4
1		3	4
	2			5
1	2	3

Table output:

<table>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>1</td>
            <td>1</td>
            <td>1</td>
            <td>4</td>
            <td>5</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>1</td>
            <td>2</td>
            <td>3</td>
            <td>4</td>
            <td>5</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>1</td>
            <td>2</td>
            <td>3</td>
            <td>4</td>
            <td>5</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>1</td>
            <td>2</td>
            <td>2</td>
            <td>2</td>
            <td>5</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>1</td>
            <td>2</td>
            <td>3</td>
            <td>3</td>
            <td>3</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

1	1	1	4	5
1	2	3	4	5
1	2	3	4	5
1	2	2	2	5
1	2	3	3	3

License

MIT