Repair damaged BB tables

[kerbiloid]

If your BB-table have been destroyed by the changed forum, and you can see [TR] [TD], etc, and you want to repair it.

1. Run, say, Notepad (a plain text editor).
2. Copy into there this dummy text:

<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1">
    <thead>

    </thead>

    <tbody>

    </tbody>
</table>

<p>qwerty</p>

3. Go to your thread page and select the remains of your table, keeping in mind that [TR] is a row begin and [/TR] is the row end, [TD] is a cell begin, [/TD] is a cell end.
4. Copy/paste your selection into the Notepad, between <tbody> and </tbody>.
5. Replace [TR] with <tr>, [/TR] with </tr>, [TD] with <td>, [/TD] with </td> to get correct HTML table rows (Edit/Find and Replace... in menu bar or so).
6. If your table has a header row, move it from between <tbody>... </tbody> into between <thead>... </thead>. Otherwise - delete <thead>... </thead>.
7. Go to ckeditor.com/demo , it's a demo page of the inline editor used by the changed forum. (JavaScript would be enabled there)
8. Press "Source" button to enable HTML source mode.
9. Copy/paste what you have in your Notepad into this editor.
10. Press "Source" again to enable WYSIWYG mode. You would see a more or less correct looking table.
11. Click inside the editor. Ctrl-A to select all. Ctrl-C to copy.
12. Go to the forum, create new post, Ctrl-V to paste here what you have in your mind.
13. Save, the Edit post and format as you like.

Notes:
1. Columns are auto-sized. To make a column narrow, find the cell with too long text and insert a space to wrap your words.
2. If your table has a <caption> element, don't apply Alignment to it: table will become a mess.
3. Remember that Enter inserts a paragraph (<p>..</p>) visible as a double vertical indent, while Shift-Enter inserts a line break (<br />) - "a single vertical indent".

 

Edited December 2, 2015 by kerbiloid