In the BBCode Help, it is stated that the Paragraph Tags are designed to "make it easier to define different 'sections' in your post."

The whole idea of this idea is the same. Not only will creating a table BBCode improve a post's organization, by splitting it into even more sections, it can improve the look and feel of guides written by players, and all posts not in HTML.


So ask yourself, is it worth it? I think it'd be a wonderful addition to the site.
Thanks,

~Eval Riz O.o

I've seen this idea so many times on forums but never seen it implemented with nice results. The table codes basically mess up templates either by interfering with the template itself or by stretching the template way off the screen. The idea of organizing a post with a table - even guides in progress - is a good idea in theory, but I don't think it'll be that great if it's added. I also don't think using tables would provide that much benefit to organizing on a discussion board. Other alternatives have been used, and quite well I might add.

The ability to float images on one side of the text or another sounds better as it won't stretch the template if the image is next to a paragraph of text as opposed to other large images.

Yes, but Proboards allows you to do the table code, although I don't get what to do.

I think this could make a nice feature, but just messes up stuff like Agent said.

If it's going to produce bad results, it's obvious we wouldn't want to implement it. The whole idea of it is to be able to float images next to text. If there's another way to do that, that would be a wonderful feature.


So we must find a way to make a similar feature that produces nice results, just as Agent breifly covered above.

Same as the HTML tables, but just replacing <,> with [,].

Actually, I have never even seen a table BBCode on forums besides the test forums that I had trashed out with mods.

So why not try it? The only problem is creating table width's, etc. It can just automatically fit to images.

If the problems you stated above could be gotten around, it would be excellent. You don't know how much trouble I had trying to create my own organized tables for my horses suggestion. This would be a major help, especially in the guides and suggestions sections.

Are the problems Agent F stated the reason we haven't gotten these yet? It seems like it gets suggested fairly often . . .

I would LOVE to have a table for this forum. Although, these problems that Agent stated... I hope that we can get around this... Time to go Googling!

If the tables were assigned properties that did not allow it to exceed a certain width and each element has to be closed (like most bb codes anyways) I wouldnt see any problem with it.

Either that or you could make the Table code actually produce carefully formatted divs. more complicated to implement but safer

http://forums.invisionize.com/index.php?au...rial&id=266

doesn't seem to break the layout, but I guess testing it a bit wouldn't hurt.

The only problem is that it has to match the same skins, meaning Sal would have to add more codes in each skin section, but that does look quite nice.

Add only a couple more columns to Drolleke's suggestion and you've got a broken layout. It's annoying to scroll vertically.