Huxtable Formatting Overridden by Quarto Bootstrapping after Quarto Update to 1.3

[mvanaman]

Not sure if this is more of a Quarto or huxtable question.

Sadly, the new Quarto (>= 1.3) undoes some of huxtable formatting in favor of Quarto's bootstrapping table theming. I have tried for html format but not PDF. Here's an example:

library(dplyr)
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#> 
#>     filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#> 
#>     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(huxtable)
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'huxtable'
#> The following object is masked from 'package:dplyr':
#> 
#>     add_rownames
iris %>% 
    head() %>% 
    huxtable() %>% 
    theme_article()
#> Warning in knit_print.huxtable(x, ...): Unrecognized output format "gfm-yaml". Using `to_screen` to print huxtables.
#> Set options("huxtable.knitr_output_format") manually to "latex", "html", "rtf", "docx", "pptx", "md" or "screen".

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   Sepal.Length   Sepal.Width   Petal.Length   Petal.Width   Species  
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
            5.1           3.5            1.4           0.2   setosa   
            4.9           3              1.4           0.2   setosa   
            4.7           3.2            1.3           0.2   setosa   
            4.6           3.1            1.5           0.2   setosa   
            5             3.6            1.4           0.2   setosa   
            5.4           3.9            1.7           0.4   setosa   
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Column names: Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, Petal.Length, Petal.Width, Species

^{Created on 2023-10-09 with reprex v2.0.2}

In the resulting html file, striping and probably other stuff I'm not noticing are changed, but so far I just notice striping. The expected output is for the table to resemble the theme_article() styling as shown here i.e., bold headers, no stripes.

This issue was noted in this stackoverflow question, but I found the solution unsatisfactory as it seems to break Quarto's tbl-cap: setting, at least for me.

System details
huxtable Version ‘5.5.2’
R Version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)
Quarto Version 1.3
RStudio Version 2023.06.1+524 (2023.06.1+524)

EDIT: tbl-caption to tbl-cap

[hughjonesd]

I would definitely report to quarto also and reference this bug. Not sure who can fix it best.

[cderv]

Hi !

I have answered at quarto-dev/quarto-cli#7187 (comment)

This is not a bug per-se but probably some compatibility adjustment with how Quarto works.

• Quarto uses Bootstrap by default as its style, including for tables.
• Quarto process HTML table since 1.3, meaning it will parse HTML table, adjust it and write it back. This applies to raw html table too. We preserve style, but some of the bootstrap style like table-striped seems applied despite the inline style you have with huxtable's style
• Quarto allows opt-ing out this by adding an attributes on <table> - for computation table, for now this is means that each table 📦 needs to allow their user to set this attributes for this to work.

Hope it helps understand.

[hughjonesd]

This is now controlled by a new option huxtable.quarto_process, which defaults to FALSE. By default it simply adds the relevant attribute into HTML table tags.