Feature request - Tables

Sparks

Admins,
Can we ask that tables support, either through the phpBB mod or through some other means, please be installed? It's very hard (often impossible) to put sports results up in the sports forums without it We wind up resorting to attaching excel files and that's not really the best solution ever to the problem

KdjaCL

code] table [/code

Sometimes works if the source is formatted, but more often that not it comes out as jibberish. Would be handy for tables and lists if added.

kdjac

Sparks

Rifle Division 1		Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Aggregate	Total
Name	Average	Score	Points	Score	Points	Score	Points	Score	Points	Score	Points	Score	Points
I Bamford	574	494	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	494	3
Julie Daltrey	570	579	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	579	8
Stuart Daltrey	570	577	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	577	7
Kristian Thomas	570	518	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	518	4
Liam Spillane	570	572	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	572	6
Richard Stapleton	570	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Karl Bunting	565	560	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	560	5
Janine Weaving	564	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rifle Division 2													
Glen Dainter	560	557	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	557	3
Paul O'Boyle	560	566	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	572	6
Ryan Lynn	560	562	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	567	5
Mark Davies	558	554	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	556	2
Ian Heads	556	561	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	565	4
Vic Morris	555	577	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	584	7
Verity Thomas	552	525	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	526	1
Rifle Division 3		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
John Walster	550	547	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	547	3
Susan Cunningham	550	567	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	567	7
Mark Dennehy	550	533	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	533	2
Daniel Fleming	550	531	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	531	1
Andrew Thomas	540	559	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	559	5
Damien Fagan	540	562	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	562	6
Emma Lyons	540	555	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	555	4

Yes, it does work - kind of. It's not particularly aesthetic, and lots of data's hidden, and it's a pain to edit to present data though. Proper tables support (even if it's just allowing the <table>, <td> and <tr> tags to be used) would be far better. In fact, just allowing the tags might be the best solution from the formatting side.

Sparks

Er, any word on this? Having to post scores tales for postal matches in target shooting at the moment, and not having tables is making it a right pain

ecksor

We're not about to allow html on any forum. It can be done safely but it's a bit of an effort.

If there are mods for vbulletin or if anybody knows how to create bbcode tags to do it easily then we could do that I suppose.

Sparks

Couldn't find a prepacked mod, but did find how it's done, here:

You have to add those 3 BB Codes

1st CODE

1. Add New BB Code
2. Title : Grid
3. Tag : grid
4. Replacement : <table {option} summary="">{param}</table>
5. Example : [grid="your attributes"]Table content[/grid]
6. Description : Make a Table
7. Use {option} : YES

2nd CODE

1. Add New BB Code
2. Title : Row
3. Tag : row
4. Replacement : <tr>{param}</tr>
5. Example : [row]Row cells[/row]
6. Description : Add Row
7. Use {option} : NO

3rd CODE

1. Add New BB Code
2. Title : Cell
3. Tag : cell
4. Replacement : <td {option}>{param}</td>
5. Example : [cell="your attributes"]Cell 1[/cell]
6. Description : Add Cell
7. Use {option} : YES

That's everything!! Here's an example of how use it :

[grid="cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2 border=1"]
[row][cell=""] Cella 1[/cell][cell=""] Cella 2[/cell][cell=""] Cella 3[/cell][/row]
[row][cell=""] Cella 4[/cell][cell=""] Cella 5[/cell][cell=""] Cella 6[/cell][/row]
[row][cell=""] Cella 7[/cell][cell=""] Cella 8[/cell][cell=""] Cella 9[/cell][/row]
[row][cell=""] Cella 10[/cell][cell=""] Cella 11[/cell][cell=""] Cella 12[/cell][/row]
[/grid] 

Sparks

Just testing...

[row][col]row 1 column 1[/col][colc]r1 c2[/colc][/row][row][colr]r2 c1[/colr][col]row 2 column 2[/col][/row]

D'Oh. Doesn't work. Darnit.
I thought 3.5 supported the tables tags?

Eoin

Sparks wrote:

Yes, it does work - kind of. It's not particularly aesthetic, and lots of data's hidden, and it's a pain to edit to present data though. Proper tables support (even if it's just allowing the <table>, <td> and <tr> tags to be used) would be far better. In fact, just allowing the tags might be the best solution from the formatting side.

The only problem I could see is that if any of the tags are not closed, it could screw up the rest of the page. IE tends to be more forgiving in this area, but Mozilla is not at all.