Are table borders a thing and if not can they be?

[hosseinimr93]

*edit* Not sure why the left column has gone haywire...

It seems to be a bug. For testing that, I quoted your post. Everything is fine in preview page. But when you post it, it's not like what was shown in the preview page.
There are some bugs in creating tables that were mentioned above by LoyceV and tranthidung.

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[TryNinja]

Like a table generator, say something like this: https://www.teamopolis.com/tools/bbcode-table-generator.aspx? Or the design aspect of how the table looks like, aesthetically,using some sort of a script perhaps?

I was thinking about something like this website. You make/edit the table as you see it and the page gives you the BBcode to make it work on BitcoinTalk.

[theymos]

It wouldn't be that difficult to add to the bbcode parser, but it might be a good opportunity to also fix the first-column bug. Maybe:
 - A border attribute would be added to the [table] tag. If you have it set, even to 0, then the first-column bug is fixed for your table (by adding/removing a CSS class)
 - Existing tables without a border specified would function exactly the same as now, for backwards-compatibility.

I'll do it if someone comes up with the ideal HTML+CSS which the table tag should produce, for all three cases: [table], [table border=0], and [table border=1]. You can't remove that problematic CSS rule without addressing the fact that it's actually supposed to do something (not sure off-hand what...), and that the behavior of old [table] tags need to remain identical for backward-compatibility. So you should either work around that CSS rule or figure out exactly what it's supposed to do and fix it to be more selective while also maintaining the old behavior on old [table]s.

[suchmoon]

It wouldn't be that difficult to add to the bbcode parser, but it might be a good opportunity to also fix the first-column bug. Maybe:
 - A border attribute would be added to the [table] tag. If you have it set, even to 0, then the first-column bug is fixed for your table (by adding/removing a CSS class)
 - Existing tables without a border specified would function exactly the same as now, for backwards-compatibility.

I'll do it if someone comes up with the ideal HTML+CSS which the table tag should produce, for all three cases: [table], [table border=0], and [table border=1]. You can't remove that problematic CSS rule without addressing the fact that it's actually supposed to do something (not sure off-hand what...), and that the behavior of old [table] tags need to remain identical for backward-compatibility. So you should either work around that CSS rule or figure out exactly what it's supposed to do and fix it to be more selective while also maintaining the old behavior on old [table]s.

The buggy rule appears to be targeting this:


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But someone forgot the "cascading" part of "CSS" and it now applies to post content as well.

For your suggested fix to work you would need:

• No CSS class on the tables without the border attribute - the old rule would still apply then.
• "table-new-style" class on tables with border attribute (any value), and the following CSS:
  
  • div#bodyarea div.post table.table-new-style > tbody > tr > td:first-child { width: auto; }
• Additional "table-with-border" class on tables with border=1, and the following CSS:
  
  • div#bodyarea div.post table.table-with-border { border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; }
  • div#bodyarea div.post table.table-with-border > tbody > tr > td { padding: 2px; border: 1px #555 solid; /* or whatever border spec you want to apply */ }

I would prefer an option to specify custom border colors but that gets a bit more complicated.

Here is an example of the suggested CSS on jackg's post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217699.msg53633870#msg53633870


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[Timelord2o67]

If @theymos is still reading this thread can he also consider adding the bbcode for countdowns which I mentioned in the bbcode thread   Instructions on how to use BBCode started by xtraelv please?