I just can't get those tables right...

Question:

I am currently working on something for this site, but I need to create some nice tables. Normally I would just use tabs in Microsoft Word or something like that, but since that doesn't work on these forums, I need something else.

But how do I use these properly? If anyone can help me out on this one, I would really appreciate it. I need something like this:

data type 1 <nice space> data 1
data type 2 <nice space> data 2

If you use many different characters, everything goes wrong, like this:

urgb|igungib <nice space> gtgththt
gugit32ughiti <nice space> gtrgtrhth

So I really need to learn how to properly use tables...

 

I'm not really sure what your problem is. I've been playing for a few minutes and my table looks good.


a very long line short line
short line fnarg!
fnarg! a very long line


What does your code look like?

Edit: Forgot to show my code :-[ I'm using 4 spaces to divide the columns

Code:

 a very long line      short line 
 short line         fnarg!  
  fnarg!            a very long line  

 

Stuff

Code:

       More stuff
stuff line 2[code]       da da da


[code]
Stuff[code]      More stuff
stuff line 2[code]      da da da

Use the pre tag and then put on spaces

 

Aaah, like that, thank you guys!
owerup: To Ximnipot69 for finding it first.

 

New rule: Nobody upstages the Forum God

 

COOL, is that gonna be on the forums rules page?

 

Uhm, what are you talking about? Ximnipot69 just explained it to me first, that's it. There is no need to have a "I'm almighty don't you dare challenging me" attitude.

 

taht is BoP man...u gotta be careful what u say...he might pwn u

 

Or even worse yet, smite you

 

read my guide to posting and you could have easily learned this... i think... might need a better explanation

 

I'm a little retarded, I didn't understood it when I read your guide. ;P
But their explanation is different then yours, they close the tags after each line, and you didn't, any idea why it (probably) works the same?

 

I put different elements on different lines for readability.

You could do everything in a line but by splitting where each row has its own line makes it easier to figure out what goes where.  Its a matter of style and has no effect on the outcome

 

I can't get empty lines in my tables, the only way to do it is closing the table, skipping a line and start a new table, but you won't get similar tabs that way. Does anyone how to accomplish this?

 

1a2a3a

1c2c3c

Code:

  1a  2a  3a
          <--Empty row
  1c  2c  3c

I sould note that when you save the table the empty row will automatically have a column added to it but since it is empty it will be rendered as blank space

 

[me=ijffdrie]uses eye of the storm on forum god[/me]



those tables are almost HTML

 

Thats because bbcode is based off HTML

I wish we could use HTML though
_________________________________________________

and now I present NESTED TABLES


1234

[br]5​

6​

7​

Code:

   <--Begin column like normal
    <---Begin new table inside that colum
  1  2
  3  4
     <--Close table and column and start next column -->  [center][br]5[/center] <--[br] line break to center the 5
[center]6[/center]  [center]7[/center]  <-- next row is normal

 

That's some fun stuff you've got there, it might be useful sometime. owerup: (also for the empty row)