Styling a table using an editor

I currently have the ckeditor installed and working well for the most part on my 'textarea' regions.

As an editor, it gives you the ability to put a table in to the text area...in a similar way to the text editor used by this forum.

I can then go into the source within the textarea and add a class to the table to style it.

Saving it from this source view results in the table appearing on the page styled correctly. However, if I go back into the page to edit it, the text editor overrides the previous styling, removing the class from the <table> and if I save again the styling disappears from the page.

Is there a way of getting the ckeditor to retain classes that you add in the source

or

is there a better editor to use that would do this?

Thanks

Quote from drewm

That might be a good question to ask in the CKEditor forums.

True, but I just thought someone here might have had a similar experience and worked out a way around it. I have previously found folk in this forum very helpful.

I tried using the tinymce editor but couldn't actually get it to work...I noticed it was a Perch 2 addon so assumed it doesn't work in Perch 3...is that correct?

Quote from JonathanHazelwood

Read more about "allowed content" the CKEditor Docs at

https://ckeditor.com/docs/cked…tent_rules.html#debugging

Thanks. i have messed around with your code suggestion with no joy but I will take your and drew's advice and delve into CHEditor Docs and forum to get this one sorted.