How To Work with tables in forum posts (Xenforo 2.0 - Jan 2019 onwards)

[Chief]

Click the "table" button above the reply box to set the table dimensions.





You can go above the default maximum rows and columns by adding rows and columns after you add the table.



You can align the text vertically and horizontally:



And you can add a header:




And there you are:

This	Is The	Header
This	Is	A
	Table
Hi! Aligned to the bottom.	You can do some things with it	Text aligned to the top
	Bold!

As you can see, the old table code doesn't work no more:

Old table code still works, and will be converted to the new table code if you edit the post and save it again:
hello! |old|table
\these| still |work
\until you|edit|the post.

BBCode won't work in cells in old tables. Not sure if it ever will as the software developer Xenforo changed the whole BBcode system.

 

[Final Siren]

Hooray! Really appreciate this, thanks!

 

[Chief]

Hooray! Really appreciate this, thanks!

It took a lot of time - with the new Xenforo software about 2/3 of the old add-ons have been abandoned - including the old table add-on.

But the new one is much better IMO - we just had to wrestle with it to get it to play nicely with the old format.

As I said, edit and save any post with an old table in it and it will convert it over. Let us know if there are any problems.

 

[Final Siren]

Test with Squiggle Predictor:

		W	L	D	%
1.	Melbourne	18	4	0	141.6%
2.	Richmond	17	5	0	141.1%
3.	Adelaide	14	8	0	109.7%
4.	West Coast	13	9	0	119.5%
5.	Essendon	13	9	0	114.9%
6.	Geelong	13	9	0	114.8%
7.	Collingwood	13	9	0	108.4%
8.	GWS	12	10	0	113.3%
9.	Hawthorn	12	10	0	108.5%
10.	North Melbourne	12	10	0	99.2%
11.	Port Adelaide	11	11	0	105.5%
12.	Brisbane Lions	10	12	0	92.2%
13.	Sydney	9	13	0	100.0%
14.	Western Bulldogs	9	13	0	89.1%
15.	St Kilda	9	13	0	87.9%
16.	Fremantle	6	16	0	76.4%
17.	Gold Coast	4	18	0	57.4%
18.	Carlton	3	19	0	65.4%

 

[Chief]

Bingo.

 

[Final Siren]

Well thanks again!

I've had a play and haven't found any major problems. Just a few minor curiosities, just FYI:

It seems essential that the TR and TD tags be on the same line and also both be uppercased. Otherwise it's interpreted as a table with one cell. E.g. this doesn't work, even though it looks like it should:

[table]
[tr]
[td]
Hello!
[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

But that will only bite people who will go in and mess around with the BBcode manually, and there aren't too many of us who do that.

From a cosmetic point of view, I think it'd be a little better without the "width:100%" on the table, since that can create some very spaced-out tables. The ladder above, for example, is somewhat hard to read on a wide desktop screen.

Similarly, it'd be good to lose the "width:" settings on each cell that forces columns to be the same width, which can produce sub-optimal results vs just letting browsers automatically reflow to fit to content. E.g. without that setting, this table would fit a lot better:

Team	Wins	Losses
Greater Western Sydney GIANTS or some other similarly long content	1	0
Tigers	0	1
Saints	0	0

 

[Chief]

Well thanks again!

I've had a play and haven't found any major problems. Just a few minor curiosities, just FYI:

It seems essential that the TR and TD tags be on the same line and also both be uppercased. Otherwise it's interpreted as a table with one cell. E.g. this doesn't work, even though it looks like it should:

[table]
[tr]
[td]
Hello!
[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

But that will only bite people who will go in and mess around with the BBcode manually, and there aren't too many of us who do that.

From a cosmetic point of view, I think it'd be a little better without the "width:100%" on the table, since that can create some very spaced-out tables. The ladder above, for example, is somewhat hard to read on a wide desktop screen.

Similarly, it'd be good to lose the "width:" settings on each cell that forces columns to be the same width, which can produce sub-optimal results vs just letting browsers automatically reflow to fit to content. E.g. without that setting, this table would fit a lot better:

Team	Wins	Losses
Greater Western Sydney GIANTS or some other similarly long content	1	0
Tigers	0	1
Saints	0	0

Thanks - will feedback to the developer.

 

[fightingfury_88]

Well thanks again!

I've had a play and haven't found any major problems. Just a few minor curiosities, just FYI:

It seems essential that the TR and TD tags be on the same line and also both be uppercased. Otherwise it's interpreted as a table with one cell. E.g. this doesn't work, even though it looks like it should:

[table]
[tr]
[td]
Hello!
[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

But that will only bite people who will go in and mess around with the BBcode manually, and there aren't too many of us who do that.

From a cosmetic point of view, I think it'd be a little better without the "width:100%" on the table, since that can create some very spaced-out tables. The ladder above, for example, is somewhat hard to read on a wide desktop screen.

Similarly, it'd be good to lose the "width:" settings on each cell that forces columns to be the same width, which can produce sub-optimal results vs just letting browsers automatically reflow to fit to content. E.g. without that setting, this table would fit a lot better:

Team	Wins	Losses
Greater Western Sydney GIANTS or some other similarly long content	1	0
Tigers	0	1
Saints	0	0

Agree with all you've said, especially the width setting.

The only other thing I've noticed Chief is that with the new bb code for tables the character limit is hit a lot sooner than in the past as the old single character | and / to start a new column or row has been replaced by the tr and td format (4 characters each when including the brackets). That's a pretty minor thing though and can be worked around by splitting the table over separate posts.

Overall though tables are looking great and should be a lot easier for users to insert without bb code.

 

[Final Siren]

FYI new format tables don’t work at all in the Tapatalk app.

 

[Chief]

FYI new format tables don’t work at all in the Tapatalk app.

Did the old ones?


On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Final Siren]

Did the old ones?

I think so, yes. I don't use Tapatalk very often, though, and it seems to have other more important problems, like links going to the wrong places.

 

[fightingfury_88]

Did the old ones?


On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app

I think so, yes. I don't use Tapatalk very often, though, and it seems to have other more important problems, like links going to the wrong places.

Nah the old bb code tables didn't display as tables in Tapatalk either. It pretty much just displayed the table code.

 

[Kirkswan]

Please, please, help me!

I went to the BB codes, and I collected all the data, and then I entered all the codes, and it still looks like this! Where is my table????

Teams	2018	2017	2016	2015
Adelaide	1-3	2-3	3-3	2-3
Brisbane	0-3	1-3	0-3	0-3
GWS Giants	2-3	2-3	1-3	2-3
Richmond	2-3	3-3	1-3	2-3
West Coast	2-3	2-3	2-3	1-3
Sydney	2-3	0-3	-3	2-3

 

[Final Siren]

Please, please, help me!

I went to the BB codes, and I collected all the data, and then I entered all the codes, and it still looks like this! Where is my table????

I believe you've hit the spacing bug I mentioned earlier: You can't have any newlines between TR and TD/TH tags. When I remove those newlines from your table, it looks like this:

Teams	2018	2017	2016	2015
Adelaide	1-3	2-3	3-3	2-3
Brisbane	0-3	1-3	0-3	0-3
GWS Giants	2-3	2-3	1-3	2-3
Richmond	2-3	3-3	1-3	2-3
West Coast	2-3	2-3	2-3	1-3
Sydney	2-3	0-3	-3	2-3

 

[Chief]

I've talked to the dev and he isn't doing any work on the version 2.0 code, so any issues we will have to patch up ourselves until we go to version 2.1.

We are also trying to manage the two types of table code so there could be little issues with the system deciding which is which.

 

[Hate]

Chief I may be going crazy, but I was editing a bunch of tables in resource posts yesterday/today and could have sworn that the alternate rows was working but now doesn't appear to be. It works in the editor itself but not in a post-preview or an actual post.

Col1	Col2	Col3	Col4	Col5
500	5	Test	Even More Test	Hello
200	455	Also Test	More Test	Ok

 

[Chief]

Chief I may be going crazy, but I was editing a bunch of tables in resource posts yesterday/today and could have sworn that the alternate rows was working but now doesn't appear to be. It works in the editor itself but not in a post-preview or an actual post.

Col1	Col2	Col3	Col4	Col5
500	5	Test	Even More Test	Hello
200	455	Also Test	More Test	Ok

Yeah that’s odd I will check it out

 

[grumbleguts]

Quick question:

How does one vary the width of the columns?