testing html inside post

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At the moment these forums use a combination of BBcode and Markdown code within posts but unfortunately Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) styling is not enabled in either.

Hopefully one day CSS styling will be enabled in at least BBcode allowing images to be sized and positioned within posts in a more user friendly layout.

In the mean time if you click the circled ? mark near the top right of the post editor you will see a list of limited styling you can use in addition to the icons near the top left of the post editor to style text within posts.

Excuse my ignorance; my decades of hobby coding has been mostly math to generate and alter images, and I know little about web scripting. Is there currently a way to simply force a fixed-width font for the purpose of creating tables that show correctly, without having to create an image?

Not that I know of.

The only options for styling and layouts I have found are just what is in the toolbar near the top left corner of the post editor and in the list that pops up when you click the circled ? mark near the top right corner.

Hopefully more options/flexibility will become available as this website forum develops.

This is what code block does:

 Col 1 | Col 2 | Col 3 | Col 4
-------+-------+-------+-------
 Bob   |  9.99 |  0.01 | 10.00
-------+-------+-------+-------
 Alice | 21.37 | 11.15 | 35.52

Let's see ...

..........
__________
iiiiiiiiii
WWWWWWWWWW

Yes; that's it. Thanks.

Thanks for that

These could be useful
www.bbcode.org/reference.php
www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/

Whoo hoo! Finally, a way to show a table.

Long ago I bookmarked this "Table Generator" website that will automatically create a table using fixed-pitch font. I never found a use for it because everyone uses proportional fonts. Let's see if this example from the website works:

+---------------------------------------+
|                Results                |
+-------------+-------------------------+
|             |        Contestant       |
| Competition +-------+--------+--------+
|             |  John | Andrea | Robert |
+-------------+-------+--------+--------+
| Swimming    |  1:30 |   2:05 |   1:15 |
+-------------+-------+--------+--------+
| Running     | 15:30 |  14:10 |  15:45 |
+-------------+-------+--------+--------+

Sweet! Thanks Rafal!

I’d add Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation to that list. Nothing like going straight to the source.

Is this still working with current updates? I just made a text graphic within "```" delimiters and all spaces longer than 2 were reduced to one space, and the carriage returns were stripped out. That's in "Preview". I didn't try posting it yet. Well, I'll try it here:

             TIME->
Ideal:  0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9
Real-A: 0 1     2  3  4           5            6 7          8
Real-B: 0   1    2 3        4           5       6    7  8 9  10

EDIT: OK; now it seems to work. I don't know what went wrong before. This here looked right in "Preview", and didn't strip anything out.

EDIT #2: I found the problem. There was an almost invisible period "." on the last line after the final "```".