Hi,
Is there any way to determine if text in a textframe is within a table, even if that table has been threaded through multiple text frames? I can check the tables count for the text frame where the table begins to see if it has a table, and then work from there for that frame. However, subsequent text frames have a tables.length of 0. Individual characters within the table, when selected, have a parent of Cell, but in my case I need to be able to check the first character in the frame and move forward based on whether that cell is in a table. For reasons that aren't clear to me, that character is never the child of Cell. And, if I pull subsequent characters from the (let's say) textFrame.characters collection, I only get characters that appear after the table (source line or caption). I'm obviously missing something about how the table is referenced in the DOM, but I can't figure out what it is.
What I want:
- Given a textFrame, determine if it begins with a table (so, check first character in textFrame for "table-ness")
What I'm getting
- The table itself seems invisible to the textFrame object.
I hope this question is clear enough. I'm having a little trouble expressing the problem. Thank you!