[Table] BBCode

[Comeagain?]

Would it be possible to have the table BBCode functionality?

 

[Doctor Q]

Can you give an example?

 

[grapes911]

Table Test

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
Row 1	Row 1	Row 1
Row 2	Row 2	Row 2

Edit: I thought tables were allowed. Maybe not.

 

[Doctor Q]

I imagine that it would work if there were separate BBcodes for table, th, tr, and td, so you'd be using HTML but with square brackets instead of angle brackets. But you'd have only the elements, not their attributes (align, valign, rowspan, border, etc.) so it would be rather primitive.

There hasn't been much demand for table tags; I don't think it's come up before. One workaround is to use

 to line up tabular information, e.g.,
[code]English    Spanish    Klingon
---------  ---------  -----------------
Monday     lunes      a good day to die
Tuesday    martes     a good day to die
Wednesday  miércoles  a good day to die
Thursday   jueves     a good day to die
Friday     viernes    a good day to die
Saturday   sábado     a good day to die
Sunday     domingo    a good day to die

 

[grapes911]

There does appear to be BBCode for tables, could vBulletin just not support it?

 

[Doctor Q]

BBcode.org lists "popular bbcode tags, some considered to be standard and supported in just about any bbcode implementation, others less likely to be supported". Sure enough, our version of vBulletin supports some but not all of them. For example, vBulletin doesn't support strikeout. bbcode.org lists it as but we added it ourselves as .

 

[Comeagain?]

When I tried to post it here, I get

Koodauw	II	DP, Fireshot91
Firestar	I	Pluto
rick snagwell	I	Tomorrow
Scepticalscribe	I	macbook pro i5
Moyank24	I	Sythas
Pluto	II	Firestar, Koodauw
Queen of Spades	I	Rick
Sythas	III	Moyank, Scepticalscribe, Aggie
Not Yet Voted	I	Comeagain?

When I post it in some other vB forums, it comes out like


Maybe that functionality comes with vB 4.x.