Adding a table

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  commradjournal · Member · Apr 25, 2006 at 3:35 pm

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  Hey all,

  I am trying to add a table to my blog. I am a DJ for a local community radio station and want to post my playlists, which are in my word processor as a multiple column table. When I cut and paste the columns I want and put them in the WordPress editor, everything disappears except the last row!

  Any ideas what is happening or how to best accomplish this? I will also say that I tried saving the tables as HTML tables and putting those in, but that didn’t work either.

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  generaldisarray · Member · Apr 25, 2006 at 5:16 pm

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  You have to type raw HTML:

  <table>
<tr>
<td>row 1 column 1</td><td>row 1 column 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2 column 1</td><td row 2 column 2</td>
</tr>
</table>

  and you can’t use any style, row, border, cellpadding, etc. attributes.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 25, 2006 at 5:32 pm

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  The theme usually has it’s own border, style, cellpadding, etc. set for tables. Each one displays tables differently.

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  commradjournal · Member · Apr 25, 2006 at 7:41 pm

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  Hmmmm…well I guess I will stick with Blogger for that application then. I can just cut and paste straight from the word processor and it comes out OK. Thanks

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  drmike · Member · Apr 25, 2006 at 7:56 pm

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  And that’s why Blogger is unsecure. :)

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  sulz · Member · Apr 25, 2006 at 11:34 pm

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  hi comradd

  you can still do the cut and paste method here but onto paint, saving it as jpeg before uploading it to your post. that’s what i did with my tables.

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  commradjournal · Member · Apr 26, 2006 at 6:20 am

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  I’ll try that one :-) Thanks for the tip!