Inserting Tables in Posts

[BioWizard]

I added some BBcode to allow tables in posts. For it to work properly, every table must contain at least one row and every row must contain at least one column (even if left empty, the tags should be there). Here's an example:

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[table][row][column]row1 column1[/column][column]row1 column2[/column][/row][row][column]row2 column1[/column][/row][row][column]row3 column1[/column][column]row3 column2[/column][column]row3 column3[/column][/row][/table]

Output:

row1 column1	row1 column2
row2 column1
row3 column1	row3 column2	row3 column3

I don't think it will be properly aligned for big tables or if the content of your columns is too long (such as a long string of characters without spaces), but for most simple purposes where you just want to align a small list of things, it should work fine.

[Nick]

OK, I've worked out how to do actual tables. You can use the tex \arrray{}{} function, for example:



is written using

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[tex]\begin{array}{|c|cc|}\hline a & b & c \\\hline d & e & f \\ g & h & i \\ \hline \end{array}[/tex]


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Unfortunately it appears that due to technical complications you need to write the array out as a single line. Writing it in a clearer way, such as:

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[tex]
\begin{array}{|c|cc|}
\hline
a & b & c \\
\hline
d & e & f \\
g & h & i \\
\hline
\end{array}
[/tex]


results in

[BioWizard]

Unfortunately it appears that due to technical complications you need to write the array out as a single line. Writing it in a clearer way, such as:

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[tex]
\begin{array}{|c|cc|}
\hline
a & b & c \\
\hline
d & e & f \\
g & h & i \\
\hline
\end{array}
[/tex]


results in

The exact reason is that phpbb does not allow HTML within posts, so the <br> tags inserted by Tex for new lines don't get rendered. Good to know that putting everything on a single line fixes that.