Tables... (Works now!)

milktree

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Once upon a time you could (one could) format information in a table, using the square bracket version of the html table markup.

something like:

thing1thing2
thing1thing2

But I can't get anything like that to work anymore.

Is the feature gone, or did I mis-remember how to do it?
 
Format in word and save as html

Find another webpage and steal all the code.

I used to do a ton of that back in the 90s and started moving over to style sheets and scripts around 2000.

Haven't done it since, but... that stuff should still work
 
Format in word and save as html

Find another webpage and steal all the code.

I used to do a ton of that back in the 90s and started moving over to style sheets and scripts around 2000.

Haven't done it since, but... that stuff should still work

I know how to write HTML just fine.

The question is how to get the forum to recognize it and display it properly.

Is there a way to insert raw HTML? I don't think there is.
 

None of those are tables.

I thought "code" might be "let me do HTML!", but it's just a way of formatting the text so you can show the code to someone else. So, it's actually the opposite of "let me do HTML"

e.g.:
Code:
[s]this would be strike through[/s] if it weren't in a "code" box.
 
Screen shot from Word and embed the image. That might be the easiest way.

Yeah, I know it's a hack...

:)

None of those are tables.

I thought "code" might be "let me do HTML!", but it's just a way of formatting the text so you can show the code to someone else. So, it's actually the opposite of "let me do HTML"

e.g.:
Code:
[s]this would be strike through[/s] if it weren't in a "code" box.
 
You were this -><- close to a workaround, however.
Code:
If code uses a fixed-width font,
then you can make up stupid ASCII art tables,
and the columns will line up fine.

Binary Sudoku

+---+---+
| 0 | 1 |
+---+---+
| 1 | 0 |
+---+---+


Ugh... I tried using a fixed width font, but stupid browsers don't honor double spaces. e.g.:

This is in courier new, wit

thing stuff

23 should be lined up with "stuff"
also should be lined up with "stuff"


Nope. all crammed together 'cuz double spaces are a no-no in the modern world... or something . (don't get me started on that rant)


stuffing it inside a "code" box is .... arguably worse than just adding an image, it looks like even more of a hack.
 
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