Table BB Codes

[midora]

Is there a way to add table bb codes in the text here in the forum or would it be possible to enable this feature (maybe there is a mod) ?

I failed to add something like the following example:

[table]
[tr]
[th]Name[/th]
[th]Age[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]John[/td]
[td]65[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Gitte[/td]
[td]40[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Sussie[/td]
[td]19[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

[BoltBait]

Two questions:

1) Why do you need them?

2) What's Sussie's phone number?

[midora]

Two questions:

1) Why do you need them?

 

My main reason is to create a more compact layout of descriptions. In the moment the text flow if just top to bottom with indents. OK sometimes I would add a real table too.

 

 

2) What's Sussie's phone number?

 

++41 40 611 ...  (the rest is on me ;-)

[Ego Eram Reputo]

As far as I know HTML codes are disabled.

I did try this sort of BB code modification very recently. The table shows up fine, but the fields are not editable. I'll send you a PM...

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Ok, we've sorted out some basic table tags to use on the forum.

[table][row][cell]cell1[/cell][cell]cell2[/cell][cell]cell3[/cell][/row][row][cell]cell4[/cell][cell]cell5[/cell][cell]cell6[/cell][/row][/table]

generates this, rather plain looking but functional table..

cell1	cell2	cell3
cell4	cell5	cell6

You can alter the text within the table with normal forum BB codes. Like this:

cell1	cell2	cell3
cell4	cell5	cell6

 

Usage:  

 

Cell tags need to be nested inside a set of Row tags.  You can use multiple Cells inside a single row.

Row tags need to be nested inside a set of Table tags.  You can use multiple Rows in a table.

 

I recommend placing the entire table on a single line.  The forum adds line-feeds after the table if you spread the tags over multiple lines.

 

 

[TechnoRobbo]

Brilliant!

[toe_head2001]

Cool. I see it's generating a table with a 60% width. That doesn't look good on high resolutions. Would you be willing to change the table width to auto?

Parameter	Value
Angle	35 degrees
Brush Width	20

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Auto will maximize the width within the parent container (inside the margins, padding, etc...,).  Are you sure that's going to translate well?  A single column table is always going to be massively wide for example.  WRONG!

 

60% was a trade off - wide enough to have several readable columns, but not so wide that one or two columns look silly. 

[toe_head2001]

Auto will maximize the width within the parent container (inside the margins, padding, etc...,).

 

This doesn't look maximized to me.

[pdnnoob]

interesting...

Could make tutorials a little tidier in some cases, but it's kinda big and clunky-looking.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

This doesn't look maximized to me.

 

Point conceded.  I'll investigate...

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Ok let's try this... Same tags, but using the width:auto styling as suggested by Toe-Head.

 

cell1	my very long cell with lots of words2	cell3
cell4	cell5	cell6

 

Tables should be shrink-wrapped to the contents