the original idea about a table would be pretty useful though.

and going back to what nick said about tables being confusing to use. surely anybody running a league successfully would have sufficient brain power to figure out how to use a table.

if you were using microsoft office, it would make more sense to use excel instead of word. that way you can create formulae that will change the points on inputting the frames won and lost.
or having the frames won and lost and points calculated by entering the scores opposite people names like i used to do. that was not for the inexperienced user though.

anyway, a simple table with custumisable amounts of rows and columns would be sufficient for on here

You misunderstood me - it's complex to add and use tables within forums as there isn't the ability to natively create a table in the same manner as Word.

Now this leaves us with a couple of options:
1) Use similar structure to HTML, eg
<table>
<tr><td>HEADING</td><td>HEADING 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr>
</table>
This would also have to be tested for validity on the server side, any incorrectly specified tables could break of the whole web-page.

2) Add a Word like JavaScript helper to create them.
This would require quite an overhaul to how the posts currently work.

Both of these are a lot of work just to add tables, when pretty much the same effect could be achieved using a simple preformat tag.

i dont understand that last part about the tag but do that

pasting in a screenshot seems like the simplest option since the others are difficult to implement

I got to agree with you there!



Can someone please explain what this is and how to use it? lol

<pre> just allows you to use spaces instead of dots, it's not rocket science lol.

There is a few llike:

<TABLE ...>
<TR ...> Table Row
<TD ...> Table Data
<TH ...> Table Header
<COL ...> Column
<COLGROUP ...> Column Group
<CAPTION ...>
<THEAD ...> Table Header Section
<TBODY ...> Table Body Section
<TFOOT ...> Table Footer Section

I can easily add a working table for you and send you the code?


Basically..

<TABLE BORDER=2>
<TR> <TD>xD</TD> <TD>1</TD> </TR>
<TR> <TD>errrr</TD> <TD>2</TD> </TR>
<TR> <TD>pwn</TD> <TD>3</TD> </TR>
<TR> <TD>lol</TD> <TD>4</TD> </TR>
</TABLE>


Simple xD

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Yeah he's not saying it can't be done he's saying it's risky to implement as any fault could completely break the web page.

This is basic html. So "Basically" (how ironic ) you just need to enable basic html in forums and it will do it for you without messing up the forums. Simples.

No chance, I'm afraid. It would be a serious security problem if anyone can edit unfiltered HTML, not to mention that most people cannot write standard and cross-browser compliant code.

Writing filters to check the input is possible of course, but this comes back to the fact it is a lot of work just to add a table.

Well why dont you just make it so it only allows the
<TABLE ...>
<TR ...> Table Row
<TD ...> Table Data
<TH ...> Table Header
<COL ...> Column
<COLGROUP ...> Column Group
<CAPTION ...>
<THEAD ...> Table Header Section
<TBODY ...> Table Body Section
<TFOOT ...> Table Footer Section
and it blocks everything else?

It would more than double the complexity of the forum filter just to add an unintuitive table structure that hardly anyone would use.

Is there no website where you can put all the info into the table and past it into a post? Or is that ambitious? lol

never mind....

Edited at 02:15 Sat 30/01/10 (GMT)

do u mean similar to putting an image into a post, theres got to be a site where u can extract a table from. I f there isnt then maybe one of us should make a site that can lol

errrrm



or maybe



To be fair tho as alot of people have now done, i see no harm in creating league tables on microsoft excel etc then saving to photobucket / tinypic etc and copying the url to the forum, i suppose its just a little bit time consuming thats all.

Edited at 10:43 Sat 30/01/10 (GMT)

http://groovynet.de/tabellen/e/e_index2.php?starte=e_r2a

Sorry, but you've come in here asking me to invest in your business wearing a t-shirt and jeans? I think your evaluation of your company is way off and in fact it's not a company and for that reason...

pic didn't work mate !

and i think its best just to create a table on excel and print screening it into paint and onto tinypic or photobucket etc...

but it would be goodif you could be able to get a table formatter on here, would make things a whole lot easier

ok now it works !

1st time i opened spoiler it didnt work lol it was just "x Posted image" lol

Use this for a table....


http://groovynet.de/tabellen/e/e_index2.php?starte=e_r2a