Table Block: Needs more tools/options

[bhubbard]

What problem does this address?

Currently I am unable to do the following in the table block:

• Style the Table headers separate from rest of the table, ie. different colors/fonts etc
• Style the Table footers separate from rest of the table, ie. different colors/fonts etc
• Style the Table caption separate from rest of the table, ie. different colors/fonts etc
• No way to merge cells with a colspan or rowspan without editing html
• No way to style individual cells separately from the column, ie. text align center for one cell, and left align for the rest. border, margin, etc for individual cells

What is your proposed solution?

Add support for these, maybe with some tool that is a cell selector under block style settings? Maybe we need child blocks such as table header block, table footer block, etc

[talldan]

It does need some love, but I think there are issues for all these things already.

[colorful-tones]

Yes, I'm quite certain most of the requested features have already been noted in prior open issues: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/labels/%5BBlock%5D%20Table

Some relevant issues that overlap here:

• https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/6923
• https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/15821
• https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/16355

I suggest we close this issue as it is a duplicate. Thoughts? 🤔