BBCode table - WYSIWYG

[Stephane]

It would be really interesting to see appear BBCode IPB table in native...

Now that we have a section article, it would be interesting to see the table appear in the WYSIWYG editor...

Just like in Joomla...

Not only include the tag [table] [td] and [tr]...

thx in advance...

Stef

[Luke]

Including such tags could break the structure of the page if used incorrectly.

[Stephane]

without being an expert, many cms already used that???

[SuperBlob]

Love this request. On another (free) forum software, they used a very simple BBCode to define tables. Basically, it looked like this:

[table=[color="#008000"]x[/color],Table Title,[color="#FF0000"]y[/color]]Cell[c]Cell[c]Cell...[/table].[/QUOTE]

The x variable, in green, sets how many cells per row the table has. If you have too many cells to fill up one row, it automatically drops the cells into the next row. The Table Title speaks for itself, and can be left blank to exclude that row of the table (it's styled like the category header by default, but can be individually styled, if the skinner so chooses). The y variable, in red, can be set to either 1, or skipped entirely. With a 1, it includes a category name row, styled like the row on the forum index that includes 'Forum', 'Stats', and 'Last Post Info'. After that, if the the category name row has been enabled, the first row of cells will be styled like it. If not, you'll go straight into regular table cells, which are separated by the [c] tag. After that, you can make the table as large as you want. Just include the [/table] tag when you want it to close.

Sure, it's not very customizable, but it's easy to set up and it gets the job done. I'm not exactly sure how much work it would take to include a table BBCode such as this, but I, and probably plenty of other people as well, think this would be a very worthwhile idea to at least consider.

[Luke]

That's pretty clever, although as you said not very customizable. The biggest problem with doing table, tr, and td outright is if someone used the tags incorrectly it would break the page structure. But that seems a bit easier and harder to screw up. Perhaps you could do something like this:

[table]

one[col]two[col]three[row]

one[col]two[col]three[row]

one[col]two[col]three

[/table]

[Nervosa]

I made a suggestion to add something like this to ip.content [url=" way to add and manage tabular data

In short it would be a set of rows and columns text files where you would enter data. Because you're giving the users sections to add data, they don't have to worry about closing tags. It could then parse it into the appropriate html data to show on pages and forums.

[ZackL]

I'd actually like this to be incorporated tbh. It would give a more organized structure to more technical posts (e.g. events, product info, etc).

[Mr. Mystery]

This is very important for my community. Any plugin for that?
I am very interested to have this.

[Traaginen]

There's a mod that does this: . I agree it should be incorporated into Content at least. Content also needs to ability to align images and such on the left or right so you can wrap around text, but that's something for another thread.

[Mr. Mystery]

I have installed a mod and it work good. But my desire is to have to create and edit with WYSIWYG editor like in the picture.

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I hope this will be added in next IPB update.