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Clicking on a markdown link should open the link rather than selecting the cell #710
Description
Users will use editable=False for read-only tables and therefore shouldn't select them. It feels awkward to have a cell become selected when the table otherwise looks and feels read-only.
In read-only tables, users will be selecting cells to:
- Copy and paste text - where they'll expect the standard "click and drag" text selection to work
- Click on embedded markdown links
Both of these interactions feel awkward with the current cell selection behavior.
We could introduce a new property like "cell_selectable", but I believe that this property should be coerced to False if editable=False
Activity
antoinerg commentedon Mar 4, 2020
@Marc-Andre-Rivet for your information, I also would like to turn off the possibility of selecting cells. Also, I need a way to open markdown link by clicking once on them. Right now, we need to click twice which is weird.
Marc-Andre-Rivet commentedon Apr 16, 2020
Having
editable=Falsecoercecell_selectable=Falsewould be a breaking change for the table. There's a lot of situations where not wanting to edit does not mean not wanting to navigate.I think the
Copy and paste textcase is fixed by #728.Agree with the MD link click requiring a single click to trigger.
For now I agree that having a
cell_selectable: boolprop is probably the only way we can do this without breaking the API. For a5.xmajor update, would be good to combineeditable+cell_selectableinto a singlemodeprop that doesn't allow for invalid combinations (eg. editable=True, selectable=False)Making the size estimate fairly large because I'm not sure what the MD fix will require.
antoinerg commentedon Apr 16, 2020
Great! @Marc-Andre-Rivet should we make a separate issue for this one?
chriddyp commentedon Apr 24, 2020
Alright, I'll update this issue to be focused on just getting clicking on a markdown link to work directly
[-]When `editable=False`, cells shouldn't be selectable[/-][+]Clicking on a markdown link should open the link rather than selecting the cell[/+]Dekermanjian commentedon May 22, 2020
Hello, I am adding this comment into this issue as it seems very closely related. There also should be an option to allow links to open in a new tab, and I believe it should be the default option. It is unlikely that a user will want to click on a link in a data-table and be directed away from the table.