[Jaywalker]

Every once in awhile I try to post a set of data that should look like a table with rows and columns, but when it posts, it doesn't. I've tried separating the columns with periods, and that helps, but the result is still non-columnar. Do you have any solutions for this?

Jaywalker

[pax]

Jaywalker,

Try reading through the info at http://www.thehighroad.org/misc.php?s=&action=bbcode -- there's a link to it at the bottom of the reply screen. The button is titled "vB code is ON."

Not sure if you'll find what you're looking for there, but it's always the first place I look.

pax

[Mal H]

In particular check out the 'code' tag. It comes the closest to allowing you to create a table. For example:

Column 1 Column 2 Col 3 Col 4
Data line 1 abcdefgh abc abc
Data line 2 ijklmnopq abc abc
etc.
You may have to mess with the spacing a little due to the proportional font used (use the preview feature), but it's a lot better than the alternative.

[Jaywalker]

How's this:

Col 1 Col2 Col3
270 130 2875
243 100 2850

You're right - it's still a little odd, but much, much better than before. Thanks. It never would have occured to me to use this tag.

Jaywalker

[C.R.Sam]

Way cool.
Thanks all.
Sam

[tyme]

Okay, so there's the ever-popular (ha!) undocumented [blockquote] tag, which does the same thing as [quote] only without the two lines and without the intro text (i.e. it translates directly into <blockquote>)

Now there are also tables with [ table] [ tr] and [ td].

See?
foo 1 2 3 4bar 1 2 3 4 5 6 7baz
ab