Table Creation Utility (0.0.3)

[adminabp]

Feb 26, 2019 15:52:05 GMT -8 Todge said:

Feb 25, 2019 16:09:48 GMT -8 adminabp said:

Edit a table already submitted. I'm using another plugin that allows copy/pasting of content while converting HTML to BBCode to past an existing table from another site into a post. It works great, but it's full of many rows of data I don't want for what I am specifically posting about; and it comes out once a month, so editing it down isn't a onetime thing.

I'm afraid that would be a problem. I have already tried to extend the plugins features to allow editing of an already submitted table and have thus far failed to get a result that I'm happy with.

I will keep trying and maybe get a breakthrough, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you.

I appreciate the effort.

Meanwhile, in the not-holding-my-breath-department, I poked around the internet and found a site I can use online to edit the table down like that while it is still HTML. For anyone who needs something like that: www.tablesgenerator.com/

While I was looking, I came across this over at Stackoverflow. I don't know if there is anything on that page or on the pages linked on it that would help, but just in case I thought I would pass it along.

Thanks again.

[Todge]

Feb 27, 2019 6:03:23 GMT -8 adminabp said:

Feb 26, 2019 15:52:05 GMT -8 Todge said:

I'm afraid that would be a problem. I have already tried to extend the plugins features to allow editing of an already submitted table and have thus far failed to get a result that I'm happy with.

I will keep trying and maybe get a breakthrough, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you.

I appreciate the effort.

Meanwhile, in the not-holding-my-breath-department, I poked around the internet and found a site I can use online to edit the table down like that while it is still HTML. For anyone who needs something like that: www.tablesgenerator.com/

While I was looking, I came across this over at Stackoverflow. I don't know if there is anything on that page or on the pages linked on it that would help, but just in case I thought I would pass it along.

Thanks again.

Thank you, but the issue is not with the actual editing of the table itself, but rather separating it from the post and then replacing the old table with the updated one.

[adminabp]

Feb 28, 2019 14:09:10 GMT -8 Todge said:

Thank you, but the issue is not with the actual editing of the table itself, but rather separating it from the post and then replacing the old table with the updated one.

Ah!

I'd had a little issue with the plugin when deleting an individual column from an existing table(and that only when the table had a 'head' and 'body' coded to it), but had had no issue with deleting rows that way at all, so I thought multiples would work the same.

[Todge]

Feb 28, 2019 21:41:14 GMT -8 adminabp said:

Feb 28, 2019 14:09:10 GMT -8 Todge said:

Thank you, but the issue is not with the actual editing of the table itself, but rather separating it from the post and then replacing the old table with the updated one.

Ah!

I'd had a little issue with the plugin when deleting an individual column from an existing table(and that only when the table had a 'head' and 'body' coded to it), but had had no issue with deleting rows that way at all, so I thought multiples would work the same.

Rows can ussually be removed from a table without issue, unfortunately, with columns that's not always the case. Tables created with this plugin include the column width in the top row as a percentage, so removing one will mean that the remaining columns will have the wrong width (they won't add up to 100%) and so can ruin the way it looks. Depending on your browser you may get the end cell larger than the rest. It's also more tricky removing a column as you have to unpick every row instead of just removing a chunk of code.

[SafeInSanity]

This plugin was working on one of my themes but now it's not working on another. It generates the table in preview but when I go to insert them there is nothing there?

[Todge]

Oct 1, 2019 9:18:18 GMT -8 SafeInSanity said:

This plugin was working on one of my themes but now it's not working on another. It generates the table in preview but when I go to insert them there is nothing there?

Could you please leave a link to guest friendly thread where this is happening, and ensure that the default theme is the theme this is not working on.

Also, is it not working on both the quick reply and the full reply page, or just one?

[SafeInSanity]

Oct 1, 2019 16:12:52 GMT -8 Todge said:

Oct 1, 2019 9:18:18 GMT -8 SafeInSanity said:

This plugin was working on one of my themes but now it's not working on another. It generates the table in preview but when I go to insert them there is nothing there?

Could you please leave a link to guest friendly thread where this is happening, and ensure that the default theme is the theme this is not working on.

Also, is it not working on both the quick reply and the full reply page, or just one?

Strange. It seems to be working fine in the test thread I made for you Todge  , but it would not work on one of my fan page threads when editing the thread earlier today.  I tried it multiple times with no luck?  (i don't have a table button in quick reply)
tvfansonline.proboards.com/board/118/techie-tests

Actually I think it may not have been working because I was trying to add them in preview mode and not bbcode mode.

[Todge]

Oct 1, 2019 16:40:19 GMT -8 SafeInSanity said:

Oct 1, 2019 16:12:52 GMT -8 Todge said:

Could you please leave a link to guest friendly thread where this is happening, and ensure that the default theme is the theme this is not working on.

Also, is it not working on both the quick reply and the full reply page, or just one?

Strange. It seems to be working fine in the test thread I made for you Todge  , but it would not work on one of my fan page threads when editing the thread earlier today.  I tried it multiple times with no luck?  (i don't have a table button in quick reply)
tvfansonline.proboards.com/board/118/techie-tests

Actually I think it may not have been working because I was trying to add them in preview mode and not bbcode mode.

The problem is caused because the iframe in the WYSIWYG editor has had the class removed.

Can you please try version 0.0.2 and let me know how it goes.

[NWRP Staff]

Hey Todge !

So I'm liking this plugin a lot -- just one small thing. My forum text is white (#ffffff). So when I go to create a table, and this plugin's popup appears, everything looks good until I click on the "Cell Options" button. Then the new, mini-popup comes up but it is unfortunately white (just like my forum text). And its color does not change to match the original plugin background.

Is there any way to fix this? Thank you!


P.S. Link to my forum if you want it.

[Todge]

Jul 28, 2020 0:56:49 GMT -8 NWRP Staff said:

Hey Todge !

So I'm liking this plugin a lot -- just one small thing. My forum text is white (#ffffff). So when I go to create a table, and this plugin's popup appears, everything looks good until I click on the "Cell Options" button. Then the new, mini-popup comes up but it is unfortunately white (just like my forum text). And its color does not change to match the original plugin background.

Is there any way to fix this? Thank you!


P.S. Link to my forum if you want it.

You can indeed..

I will add an option to choose the colors of the second pop-up in the plugin , but in the meantime, you can add this to your forums CSS styling..

#cellOptions { 
 background-color: #123456!important; 
 color: #654321; 
}

#cellOptions input { 
 background-color: #654321; 
 color: #123456; 
}

And change the red numbers to match.

[NWRP Staff]

This is exactly what I needed -- thank you!

[Todge]

Jul 28, 2020 11:04:18 GMT -8 NWRP Staff said:

This is exactly what I needed -- thank you!

No worries..

[caladrius]

Oct 3, 2019 9:04:00 GMT -8 Todge said:

Oct 1, 2019 16:40:19 GMT -8 SafeInSanity said:

Strange. It seems to be working fine in the test thread I made for you Todge  , but it would not work on one of my fan page threads when editing the thread earlier today.  I tried it multiple times with no luck?  (i don't have a table button in quick reply)
tvfansonline.proboards.com/board/118/techie-tests

Actually I think it may not have been working because I was trying to add them in preview mode and not bbcode mode.

The problem is caused because the iframe in the WYSIWYG editor has had the class removed.

Can you please try version 0.0.2 and let me know how it goes.

The library has version 0.0.1. What's the difference between that and version 0.0.2? Which one should I download and install?

[Todge]

Sept 25, 2020 10:40:45 GMT -8 caladrius said:

Oct 3, 2019 9:04:00 GMT -8 Todge said:

The problem is caused because the iframe in the WYSIWYG editor has had the class removed.

Can you please try version 0.0.2 and let me know how it goes.

The library has version 0.0.1. What's the difference between that and version 0.0.2? Which one should I download and install?

Version 0.0.2 is the more up to date version, so go with that version.

I didn't hear back from SafeInSanity so I never submitted the updated version to the library.. I'll do that now.

[caladrius]

My table is fine. It does everything I need including colors and font format. However, the table seems fixed in width; that is, it always takes up the same amount of space on my posts. In the default table generator (pre-plugin), the column width is more dynamic in that its width depends on the largest cell in that column and the largest cell in that column depends on the characters in that cell.

How do I get this particular dynamic column width feature back? What code should I be entering?

Before you say, "Change the 'cell width: 100%' in the bbcode to 'cell width: 50%' " I've done that. But that forces me to manually look at the table and "guess" my desired width. I'd like a more dynamic automatic width thing.

Update: Well, I figured it out. I just compared the bbcode of an old formatted table vs. the new one with the plugin. It was so simple, I feel stupid.