tables

Red Fireball · January 23, 2017 at 8:49 AM

I recently tried to get some research content back on here (see https://guildwarslegacy.com/thread-453.html) but I have trouble getting any kind of table working. BB-Code, HTML or any option on the menu when posting a new thread/post - couldn´t find any working way to do it. There has been the BB-Code solution on old guildwarsguru which was very convenient - I´d also go into the HTML-coding, if there is a way to embed such in a post, the third option I assume would be too much. Hope you can help me - maybe there even is an option already that I´m not aware of?!
cheers, Red

MaxBorken · January 23, 2017 at 9:13 AM Official Post

This needs to happen. Red's tables of stat ranges are legendary and need to return.

cosyfiep · January 23, 2017 at 11:32 PM Official Post

yes, hope we can get this up and running here!

Marty Silverblade · January 23, 2017 at 11:46 PM Official Post

Forum admins don't typically allow html embedding because of security concerns so you'd need a plugin. A quick google search suggests it wouldn't be too difficult.

Iaerah · January 24, 2017 at 8:31 PM Official Post

I'll die before I'll allow tables in here!

[table=100]

[tr][/tr]

[th]TH 1[/th]
[th]TH 2[/th]
[th]TH 3[/th]
[th]TH 4[/th]
[th]TH 5[/th]

[tr][/tr][td][/td]

TD 1

[td][/td]

TD 2

[td][/td]

TD 3

[td][/td]

TD 4

[td][/td]

TD 5

[tr][/tr][td][/td]

TD 21

[td][/td]

TD 22

[td][/td]

TD 23

[td][/td]

TD 24

[td][/td]

TD 25

[tr][/tr][td][/td]

TD 31

[td][/td]

TD 32

[td][/td]

TD 33

[td][/td]

TD 34

[td][/td]

TD 35

[td][/td]

TD 36

[/table]

Oh... is that a table? :o

Code

[table=5]
[tr]


[th]TH 1[/th]
[th]TH 2[/th]
[th]TH 3[/th]
[th]TH 4[/th]
[th]TH 5[/th]
[/tr]


[tr]
[td]TD 1[/td]
[td]TD 2[/td]
[td]TD 3[/td]
[td]TD 4[/td]
[td]TD 5[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]TD 21[/td]
[td]TD 22[/td]
[td]TD 23[/td]
[td]TD 24[/td]
[td]TD 25[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]TD 31[/td]
[td]TD 32[/td]
[td]TD 33[/td]
[td]TD 34[/td]
[td]TD 35[/td]
[td]TD 36[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

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Lexx · January 24, 2017 at 8:54 PM

You clearly have some mad table skillz there, Kevin!

cosyfiep · January 24, 2017 at 9:18 PM Official Post

woooot tables!!!

(its been a slow day here, really)

Lexx · January 24, 2017 at 9:28 PM

[font="Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace"][table=2][/font]
[font="Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace"]

[tr][/tr]

[/font]

[tr][/tr][tr][/tr]

[font="Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace"][th]Woot[/th][/font][font="Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace"][th]cosyfiep[/th][/font][font="Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace"]

[/font]
[font="Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace"]

[tr][/tr]

[/font]

[tr][/tr][tr][/tr]

[font="Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace"]

[td][/td]

you're

[/font][font="Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace"]

[td][/td]

alive!

[/font][font="Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace"]

[/font]
[font="Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace"][/table][/font]

Emma · January 24, 2017 at 10:34 PM Official Post

Quote from Kevin
I'll die before I'll allow tables in here!

[table=5]
[tr][/tr]
[th]TH 1[/th]
[th]TH 2[/th]
[th]TH 3[/th]
[th]TH 4[/th]
[th]TH 5[/th]
[tr][/tr] [td][/td]
TD 1
[td][/td]
TD 2
[td][/td]
TD 3
[td][/td]
TD 4
[td][/td]
TD 5

[tr][/tr] [td][/td]
TD 21
[td][/td]
TD 22
[td][/td]
TD 23
[td][/td]
TD 24
[td][/td]
TD 25

[tr][/tr] [td][/td]
TD 31
[td][/td]
TD 32
[td][/td]
TD 33
[td][/td]
TD 34
[td][/td]
TD 35
[td][/td]
TD 36

[/table]

Oh... is that a table? :o
Code
[table=5]
[tr]


[th]TH 1[/th]
[th]TH 2[/th]
[th]TH 3[/th]
[th]TH 4[/th]
[th]TH 5[/th]
[/tr]


[tr]
[td]TD 1[/td]
[td]TD 2[/td]
[td]TD 3[/td]
[td]TD 4[/td]
[td]TD 5[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]TD 21[/td]
[td]TD 22[/td]
[td]TD 23[/td]
[td]TD 24[/td]
[td]TD 25[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]TD 31[/td]
[td]TD 32[/td]
[td]TD 33[/td]
[td]TD 34[/td]
[td]TD 35[/td]
[td]TD 36[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
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Guess he dieded now

MaxBorken · January 24, 2017 at 11:12 PM Official Post

No no no.

That's a table.

Lexx · January 25, 2017 at 12:06 AM

or perhaps this

MaxBorken · January 25, 2017 at 12:07 AM Official Post

He's right.... THAT is a table.

Red Fireball · January 25, 2017 at 10:50 PM

awesome - thanks for the help! I´ll try Kevins version whenever I find some spare minutes - if it wouldn´t work I´ll try Max´s or Lexx´s table versions - tbh they look more appealing in their demo posts, Kevin!

Huge thanks Kevin! you´re the governor!

Marty Silverblade · January 26, 2017 at 12:12 AM Official Post

If you need a hand let me know. You'll be able to cut out most of the work if you use notepad/whatever to replace " | " with "[/td][td]". Work smarter not harder!

Iaerah: I've noticed the th tags are left aligned but the td tags are centered. I'm not sure if that was intentional.

EDIT: Given the size of the table it'd also be important to make sure the forum doesn't break when the table is wider than the window.

EDIT 2: A wide enough table will break the formatting. Hopefully the requirements table will be fine.

EDIT 3: I broke it so much I had to hard delete this post and repost. Any further testing ought to be done in a separate test thread.

Red Fireball · January 26, 2017 at 10:09 AM

finally I got a little time and here is the updated listvisible.

I´d propose some convenient changes - if that is possible (I´m not at all into this end of programming...):

a) maybe alternating color background for the rows

b) smaller height for the rows so the entire table doesn´t spread too far (with above idea it should be even better possible to have an overview)

c) Lines between cells and around the entire table - I see, the th version will do exactly that, but the text colour is too faint there

d) some options to highlight column and row descriptions

ok, I realised point c) and d) would be fixed by: 1. keeping lines with the td cells and 2. making the font black on the th cells

also does the table=5 mean anything? It has bothered me on guildwarsguru for a long time, as the 5 just seems to be a title for the table which is nowhere shown...

cosyfiep · January 26, 2017 at 4:27 PM Official Post

first change I would do for the staff table (I cant even see req 12 or 13) is to change the name of the staff gold/purple...put a space after the / so that it goes to a new line (same for white/blue) might want to just change the title from req to staff....

Iaerah · January 26, 2017 at 9:13 PM Official Post

Quote from Red Fireball

finally I got a little time and here is the updated listvisible.

I´d propose some convenient changes - if that is possible (I´m not at all into this end of programming...):

a) maybe alternating color background for the rows

b) smaller height for the rows so the entire table doesn´t spread too far (with above idea it should be even better possible to have an overview)

c) Lines between cells and around the entire table - I see, the th version will do exactly that, but the text colour is too faint there

d) some options to highlight column and row descriptions

ok, I realised point c) and d) would be fixed by: 1. keeping lines with the td cells and 2. making the font black on the th cells

also does the table=5 mean anything? It has bothered me on guildwarsguru for a long time, as the 5 just seems to be a title for the table which is nowhere shown...

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I'll look into all of those, but to be honest I've got a quite hefty to-do list already, so it may take a while.
a) I haven't added any styling to the tables yet - it's still the default theme styling. I'll look into it when I can
b) Same as above, I'll need to modify the styling of it
c) Same as above
d) Could do that
The table=5 indicates how big your table is. Putting it on 100 will let the table take the entire width, 50% half of it, etc..

Red Fireball · January 26, 2017 at 9:30 PM

Quote from Kevin

I'll look into all of those, but to be honest I've got a quite hefty to-do list already, so it may take a while.
a) I haven't added any styling to the tables yet - it's still the default theme styling. I'll look into it when I can
b) Same as above, I'll need to modify the styling of it
c) Same as above
d) Could do that
The table=5 indicates how big your table is. Putting it on 100 will let the table take the entire width, 50% half of it, etc..

don´t rush it - we stayed in gw1 for more than 10 years - we are not the folks who need quick changes

also I found a rather confusing thing: whenever I post or preview my post there are some empty lines added to my "code" - noticed it in the tables, also it seems as though those empty lines between rows of the table code generate a bigger distance between the table and the text above it... dunno if either is supposed to happen?!

And damn that table=5 is even useful then! - Thanks for enlightening me!

Quote from cosyfiep

first change I would do for the staff table (I cant even see req 12 or 13) is to change the name of the staff gold/purple...put a space after the / so that it goes to a new line (same for white/blue) might want to just change the title from req to staff....

Thanks there - changed it, looks better (even though my screen was wide enough or my font small enough to show the entire thing, so I didn´t notice)

cosyfiep · January 26, 2017 at 10:55 PM Official Post

hm, still not seeing the rest of the staff table but the names fit in better--though I like the size of the 1st one better now as well...(can only see up to req 11 on the staff table still)
and I dont see a way to scroll left/right either to get the rest of that table (I thought I had a good enough sized monitor /sadpanda)