How to insert aside notation for a code generated table?

[aborruso]

Hi,
is there a way to insert an aside notation for a code generated table?

The only way I have found is to use a margin content {.column-margin}.

Thank you

[dragonstyle]

You can also use the class aside something like:

---
title: Test Document
format: html
---


```{r}
#| warning: false
#| echo: false  
library(dplyr)
library(scales)
library(gt)

#Load data and arrange in descending order of emissions
#Generate a gt table from head of data
head(mtcars) %>% 
  gt()

```

::: {.aside}
This is an aside regarding the table.
:::

[mcanouil]

"fenced div" (@dragonstyle version) is or should be similar to the span specification (see https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/markdown-basics.html#divs-and-spans for details).
If it's not working, it might be a bug.

[aborruso]

hi @mcanouil if I use this syntax, the aside text is not on the right of the text that precedes it, but at the bottom right of an empty line.

[This is a span that has the class aside which places it in the margin without a footnote number.]{.aside}

Instead If I use this, the aside text is on the right of the text that precedes it. It seems to me a bug.

Am I right?

::: {.aside}
This is an aside regarding the table.
:::

[mcanouil]

spans are usually used for in-line styling while div are more like paragraph styling to simplify.
Here, it seems Quarto does not handle both types the same way.
I do not know if it's intended or not (thus a bug).

[dragonstyle]

It does seem surprising that we're treating the two so differently (and if anything you'd sort of expect the div to have block like behavior and the span more inline like behavior). I'll take a closer look!

[aborruso]

@dragonstyle thank you.

For me the problem is that in the guide you have the aside put on the right, but if I use it I do no have it on the right.
Then if I'm not wrong there may be an inconsistency between documentation and results.