Creating tables in forum posts

[xantia_v6]

It has been noted by some users that this forum did not allow the creation of tables in posts. Unfortunately, the phpBB software does not have a wysiwyg editor which would make tables easy to add, but it is now possible (if you have a little patience) to create a table using BBCode.

Here is an example of a small table,

col a	col b	col c	col d
data 1a	data 1b	data 1c	data 1d
data 2a	data 2b	data 2c	data 2d
data 3a	data 3b	data 3c	data 3d

Which is generated by the BBCode:

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[table]
[tr] [th]col a[/th]   [th]col b[/th]   [th]col c[/th]   [th]col d[/th]   [/tr]
[tr] [td]data 1a[/td] [td]data 1b[/td] [td]data 1c[/td] [td]data 1d[/td] [/tr]
[tr] [td]data 2a[/td] [td]data 2b[/td] [td]data 2c[/td] [td]data 2d[/td] [/tr]
[tr] [td]data 3a[/td] [td]data 3b[/td] [td]data 3c[/td] [td]data 3d[/td] [/tr]
[/table]

As you can see, the whole table is surrounded by

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[table]  ... [/table]

tags
Each row is surrounded by

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[tr] ... [/tr] 

Each column header is surrounded by

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[th] ... [/th] 

Each cell is surrounded by

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 [td] ... [/td] 

Have fun