Quickly creating a table in a post?
 

Not sure if this belongs in the computer forum or not...

What is the easiest way to post a table and have all the columns line up vertically (ie, spaces not be collapsed)? Similar to what the "code" vB tags would do... I can do it in HTML, but that would take an amazing amount of work for how often I would like to do this. It'll be a weekly thing with several tables each week.

Ideally, I would love to just be able to do a table in courier font and space out the columns. But doing that collapses the spaces.

Any suggestions?

for the table in the permissions in advance thread

i have the names saved in excel

i hit save as webpage

then view source and copy the source..

paste to ms word, highlight all, and select replace paragraph marks with null (you have to get the spaces out of the code or it plays hell on the ubb code)

then copy it and paste from there into your message


took me awhile to get the routine down.. but now takes less then a minute to do it all whenever I update that page

DarkElf: Before posting your message, copy and paste the text into a text editor with a search and replace feature (Wordpad, for instance). Replace ' ' (a single space) with ' ' and you'll be good to go. HTML spaces are not collapsed in that same way.

Quick example:

<font face="Courier">+------------------------+-------+-------+-------+
|&nbsp;Title&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs p;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;Discs&nbsp;|&nbsp;Paid&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;MSRP&nbsp;&nbsp;|
+------------------------+-------+-------+-------+
|&nbsp;Leprechaun&nbsp;2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nb sp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;5.99&nbsp;|&nbsp;14.99&nbsp;|
|&nbsp;Leprechaun&nbsp;3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nb sp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1&nbsp;|&nbsp;11.97&nbsp;|&nbsp;24.95&nbsp;|
|&nbsp;Leprechaun&nbsp;4:&nbsp;In&nbsp;Space&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1&nbsp;|&nbsp;11.98 &nbsp;|&nbsp;24.95&nbsp;|
|&nbsp;Leprechaun&nbsp;In&nbsp;The&nbsp;Hood&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp ;2.98&nbsp;|&nbsp;24.99&nbsp;|
+------------------------+-------+-------+-------+</font>

Thanks to both of you. Both methods sound a lot easier than coding HTML. :)

SWEET! :)

Dark Elf: Great question. Thank you for posing it.
Ctyner: Thanks for answer that is within range of what I can do.

I've posted several collapsed tables, and just tried to make as readible as I can knowing it would be collapsed. I'll use this in future.