...not so much
Posted on 07/03/2018 3:55:13 PM PDT by mairdie
I'm building a table for an FR friend and I did it the way I'd do it for my own website. It's a double table, to get an attractive border, and then a series of rows of various colors and numbers of columns. And, indeed, it's glorious on my website. But when we put the complete table into a thread or into my profile, the outer tables are completely removed by FR and the format of the rows becomes of varying lengths with missing borders around the cells, though both surrounding tables had their borders set correctly.
Does this ring a bell with anyone, and is there anything that can be done to regain a normal table appearance? Thanks in advance for any help you could give.
Do a search at the top right of the FR home page for HTML. You should find several links to posting tips.
Found the links. Going there now. Wish me luck. Thanks.
https://www.w3schools.com/Html/
Just search what you are trying to do i.e post image html and use this site. Got the suggestion here years ago.
...not so much
The problem isn’t knowing html. I have about 30,000 pages of html on the web. The problem is knowing why Free Republic is MUNGING the html. The sandbox is giving normal html commands. The problem is that FR isn’t accepting them. Haven’t found a sentence yet that says that they trash tables, but somewhere that seems to be what is happening.
THAT is the greatest kitten gif. We’re catless now - just pups - and that made me miss the kits so badly.
| THIS | IS |
| A | TABLE |
<table border=1> <tr>lt;td>THIS<td>lt;td>IS<td> <tr>lt;td>A<td>lt;td>TABLE<td> <table>
Ask the admins. They would know what HTML commands they accept. Sounds like it’s just some basic ones.
I have some experience using/writing HTML. FR accepts/uses just the HTML basics. If you include CSS or Javascript in your submitted HTML, you’re going to be disappointed.
For an example of nested tables that FR will accept and render well, check out the posts at the FReeper Canteen:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3667932/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3667631/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3667392/posts
<table border=1> <tr><td>THIS</td><td>IS</td> <tr><td>A</td><td>TABLE</td> <table>
And the last tag is still wrong: Should be “/table”
Have you tried using your brower’s ‘view source’ command? I use Slimjet and can type Ctrl/u on any FR page to see the source code rendering. This can be very helpful in debuging your HTML code.
IBTZ /S
Here's the table on my website.
http://www.iment.com/maida/politics/trump/for-ransomnote.htm
Here's the table on FR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~mairdie/
They are not the same HTML code. No way close. Bring up those 2 pages side by side, and then do View Page Source for each. There are significant differences when viewing the source - eg one’s clearly got a table within a table and the other doesn’t. I would recommend you reconcile those difference first before asking for more help here.
I looked at the rendered source code on your web site and here on FR.
One thing that jumped out at me: all your style statements are being stripped. style statements are not supported in code submitted to FR. That right there can account for most of the problems.
You’re brilliant! Of course I do that for my own web pages. Never thought to do it for FR. And it’s just what you expect. It completely MUNGED the html into something unrecognizable. Stripped off my table headers and replaced them with their own. Sigh.
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