Tables in blog
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Thanks.Being next to useless, I wonder whether that is likely to be beyond me, or can you point me in the direction where I might learn how to do it, please. Thanks very much for your time.
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Afraid I wouldn’t even attempt it. I’m no coder.
It’s possible that an offline blog editor like Windows Live Writer or Blogdesk or Ecto could do it, but you’d have to play around with it to see.
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Here’s a few links
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
http://www.entheosweb.com/website_design/table_tricks.asp
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Guys, thank you so much. Thanks to you, I have just ‘found’ the way to write, and post, blogs from Office 2007, including of course, tables. I have tried it and – it works!!! Yea! Thanks once again. (You are very patient with us!)
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Tables are really not a great idea – if you use them, check that it renders well in all thinkable browsers, or you might be up for some suprises.
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I’ve only tried once to get a table working and failed miserably (last time I did serious HTML was about 1999). I ended up creating the table in Nvu and taking a screen shot of it. I then posted that rather than the table. It got the point I needed for the blog entry across.
If you really want to see it, let me know and I’ll try to remember what post it was in.
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I still don’t understand why you want tables, though, and how complex it would have to be, to be difficult? I can understand it if you want to put already exsisting data into your blog, such as an excel sheet, but then a pdf or something should do?
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wpvstp – yeess.. maybe I don’t have the imagination to see where I would need tables, or have no other option.
I have of course done my bit of td – tr-ing, and found that it will be an awful mess with CSS and some browsers. Of course, maybe in wordpress posts it will never be a problem, but I have come to hate tables.
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boblets – you are right in some respect, tables CAN cause all sorts of things to happen; I’ve done my share of handcoding HTML too, and that certainly wasn’t fun, especially when it came to coding whole web pages using nested tables…a recipe for disaster. But I don’t see using simple tables with a couple of rows and columns in a post as a problem. I’ve never encountered problems with that so far, except for the occasional forgotten closing tag, but that’s usually easily sorted out. With huge amounts of data, i.e. from a spread sheet, a screen capture or pdf would be the better way to go.
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I usually do my tables in Google Docs, then paste the HTML into the WordPress editor. I can’t remember why I don’t post directly from Google Docs…
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Windows Live Writer makes very nice tables with options and the code is much better than say from Word. And it can be made to work specifically with WordPress so it “understands” the WordPress options and limitations. I’ve only recently started using it and am very pleased. It synchs up with a wordpress site so one can edit content (both posts and pages) already on-line and published if necessary also.
Sheesh, never thought I’d be singing the praises of Microsoft products! -
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Copy/paste from anything from MS is not a good idea. You can pick up all kinds of stray tags. Be sure to click the “Close Tags” button in the Write Page when you do that.
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