[Forum Suggestion] Add support for tables in posts/comments

[MatthewGraham]

Being able to add tables to posts would be very helpful, especially for users who write out longer posts or content. Posted a thread last night and had to take screenshots of Excel sheets to show a few tables. Support for table formatting would:

• Let the content in those tables get indexed by search engines
• Allow copy-pasting of content and clickable links in tables
• Make it easier for users to display data and other tabled content, especially for larger guides
• In general be great

I did some searching -- "table site:blackhatworld.com" -- and didn't find anything relevant. Only threads like these:

• https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/table-for-sale-on-ebay-lmao.110467/
• https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/man-gets-penis-stuck-in-table.984682/

Table functionality/support seems to be compatible with XenForo. There are a few XenForo threads on the topic:

• https://xenforo.com/community/threads/how-to-copy-and-paste-excel-spreadsheets.105830/
• https://xenforo.com/community/threads/how-to-include-tables-in-posts.24623/

Those threads suggest that this is something that can be implemented with a BB code similar to the ones that BHW uses for quotes, spoilers, code, and so on. Ex:

This is a header cell	This is a header cell

[TR1][TD]This is a left aligned cell[/TD][TD1]This is a centre aligned cell[/TD1][/TR1][TR2][TD2]This is a right aligned cell[/TD2][TD]Left aligned[/TD][/TR2][TR1][TD1]Centre aligned[/TD1][TD2]Right aligned[/TD2][/TR1]

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Edit: Apparently that table code worked verbatim and this is already implemented. Cool. Nvm.

 

[BHW-News]

Edit: Apparently that table code worked verbatim and this is already implemented. Cool. Nvm.

Hah, you beat me to it. I was just wondering how to point out that you'd used a table in your post without sounding like I was being sarcastic