How it works

On every front-end HTML page, the plugin checks the finished HTML just before Joomla sends it to the browser:

1. If the page has no <table>, nothing else happens. That costs one quick text search.
2. Page-level rules, such as menu items and components, decide whether the page should be processed.
3. Each table is checked against the table-level rules: ignore classes, menus, exclude and include selectors, scope, and layout tables.
4. Each eligible table gets its layout, a wrapper and a few CSS classes.
5. The stylesheet and a small style block built from your settings are added once, and only on pages where a table was processed.

The plugin never touches:

• Administrator pages, AJAX requests (com_ajax or XMLHttpRequest), or raw, json, feed, xml and pdf output.
• Anything inside <script>, <style>, <textarea>, <template>, <noscript>, <pre>, <code>, <iframe>, <svg>, <math> or HTML comments.
• Tables it can't read safely, such as unclosed or broken markup. These are left exactly as they are.
• Pages larger than the Page size limit.

If anything goes wrong while a page is processed, the page is sent unchanged.