Hey guys, some help please

I am trying to get the following tables so the cells are centered in their respective spots, and I can't figure it out.

Thanks for your help

Just replace the | with |^

|!! WEAPON | TYPE | AMMO| REL | ROF | DMG | CRIT | BLAST | RANGE | MAG | ARMOR | WEIGHT |50%
|^ Glock 19|^ Pistol|^ 9x19 |^  5  |^  2  |^  1  |^   2  |^   -   |^   2   |^ 17  |^   +1  |^   .5


This message was last edited by the user at 21:36, Wed 17 Aug 2022.

In reply to Imladir (msg # 2):

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

One more question.

How do I get it so everything is on one line, for each item?

Specifically where some items are jumbled, like the FN SCAR 17

You can try to replace the spaces with  , but it's a bit sketchy and without guarantees.
You could also increase the width of the total table and set the width of the first column, but there again, no guarantees, display will adapt to the screen.

Like that:


|!WEAPON |! TYPE |! AMMO |! REL |! ROF |! DMG |! CRIT |! BLAST |! RANGE |! MAG |! ARMOR |! WEIGHT |75%
|-30%----|-------|-------|------|------|------|-------|--------|--------|------|--------|---------|
|^ Glock 19 |^ Pistol|^ 9x19 |^  5  |^  2  |^  1  |^   2  |^   -   |^   2   |^ 17  |^   +1  |^   .5
|^ HK MP7  |^ SMG   |^4.6x30|^  5  |^  6  |^  1  |^   2  |^   -   |^   3   |^ 30  |^   -   |^   1
|^FN SCAR 17|^BR|^7.62x51|^5|^4|^3|^4|^-|^8|^20|^-|^1.5
|^FN MK48 MOD 2|^GPMG|^7.62x51|^5|^5|^3|^4|^-|^8|^100|^-|^2.5
|^Barrett MRAD|^SR|^ .338 Lapua Mag|^5|^1|^3|^3|^-|^16|^5|^-|^2

Short answer: you can't.

Normally, the table will word-wrap its contents to fit the size of the window of your browser.  Unless you can control this for every user (you can't), you can't prevent this behaviour from happening.

Thanks both of you!!!!!!!!!!

if you attention to detail approaches OCD you could format you chart like this to get a narrow-er chart.


the trick to getting it to work ...beside being touched by the OCD...

is what I call cell code (there must be a space after the "code" and none before it)

|< | makes the contents stick to the left

|> | makes the contents stick to the right

|^ | makes the contents stick in the center

|! | greyscales that cell & centers the contents of that cell only

|!! | greyscales that cell & centers the contents of that cell and every cell to the right of it.

|2 |  makes the cell 2 cells wide.

|3 | ...three wide ...etc

|1.2 | makes the cell 1 wide, but 2 tall

|2.2 | two wide and two tall

in my experience it is a bad idea to format with taller cells after shorter(height) cells. it tends to be a formatting nightmare so make the taller cells to the left and reduce size going left to right.

the order of the code does not seem to matter much as long as you don't separate the double ... !! ... or the ... (number)point(number)



|! WEAPON |! TYPE |! AMMO |! WEIGHT |! REL |! ROF |! DMG |! CRIT |
|!^1.3 Glock 19 |^1.3 Pistol |^1.3 9x19 |^1.3 .5 |^ 5 |^ 2 |^ 1 |^ 2 |
|! BLAST |! RANGE |! MAG |! ARMOR |
|^ - |^ 2 |^ 17 |^ +1 |
|!4 |! REL |! ROF |! DMG |! CRIT |
|!^1.3 HK MP7 |^1.3 SMG |^1.3 4.6x30 |^1.3 1 |^ 5 |^ 6 |^ 1 |^ 2 |
|! BLAST |! RANGE |! MAG |! ARMOR |
|^ - |^ 3 |^ 30 |^ - |
|!4 |! REL |! ROF |! DMG |! CRIT |
|!^1.3 FN SCAR 17 |^1.3 BR |^1.3 7.62x51 |^1.3 1.5 |^ 5 |^ 4 |^ 3 |^ 4 |
|! BLAST |! RANGE |! MAG |! ARMOR |
|^ - |^ 8 |^ 20 |^ - |
|!4 |! REL |! ROF |! DMG |! CRIT |
|!^1.3 FN MK48 MOD 2 |^1.3 GPMG |^1.3 7.62x51 |^1.3 2.5 |^ 5 |^ 5 |^ 3 |^ 4 |
|! BLAST |! RANGE |! MAG |! ARMOR |
|^ - |^ 8 |^ 100 |^ - |
|!4 |! REL |! ROF |! DMG |! CRIT |
|!^1.3 Barrett MRAD |^1.3 SR |^1.3 .338 Lapua Mag|^1.3 2 |^ 5 |^ 1 |^ 3 |^ 3 |
|! BLAST |! RANGE |! MAG |! ARMOR |
|^ - |^ 16 |^ 5 |^ - |
|!4 |! REL |! ROF |! DMG |! CRIT |



/help/content.cgi?t=faqs&page=rubbcode

see (tables) and (more advanced tables)
This message was last edited by the user at 21:54, Thu 18 Aug 2022.

Holy cow, that is awesome.

Yeah my OCD, for some things, gets a bit interesting.

This is great, thank you!

In reply to jess_car_fix (msg # 8):

You are now my personal RPoL hero.

In reply to jess_car_fix (msg # 8):

You can use table level formatting as well... This would make your table a little less crowded during edit



|^-|^-|^-|
|!! A| B| C
| 1| 2| 3

If your CDO is as intense as mine can be about cell formatting... there is this thread here (buried deep in the subforum):
link to a message in this forum


Fair warning:  As noted here, some stuff (cell width forcing in particular) doesn't exactly work properly here in Responsive like it does on the Old Site.  So... some code might not function or it might function oddly.

For that sort of stuff, I prefer to make pics, which can be zoomed as the end user needs.  (But that's more work when a few cells need to be updated, so it's only "pics" for things that will not ever be changing,)

(Side note, yes that's the Old RPoL addy.  If used from within the Old Site, it goes to the Old Site, if used from within the Responsive, it get's converted to the Responsive site automagically.  Just a little tip when you link threads in your games and have a mixed bag of Players, Old and Responsive.)
This message was last edited by the user at 16:07, Sun 21 Aug 2022.

Maybe-kinda-sorta related question...

Is there a command/code which will allow me to fill a cell with a background color other than gray?

No, you'd need to be able to use CSS tags for that, which you can't.

Quick note, you don't need to put exclamation marks in each cell if you want the whole row to be a Header, you can put a double exclamation mark in the first cell.  In fact, once you drop double exclamations into a cell, that cell and every cell to it's right is a Header cell.

Like so:
|!! WEAPON | TYPE | AMMO | WEIGHT | REL | ROF | DMG | CRIT |
|^ Glock 19 |^ Pistol |^ 9x19 |^ 5 |^ 2 |^ 1 |^ 2 |^ - |

Yields:

While...
| WEAPON |!! TYPE | AMMO | WEIGHT | REL | ROF | DMG | CRIT |
|^ Glock 19 |^ Pistol |^ 9x19 |^ 5 |^ 2 |^ 1 |^ 2 |^ - |

Yields:


You can also throw RuBB formatting into the cell so if you want BOLDING without a Header background, or colors, or Italics, etc, like so:

While...
|!! <large>WEAPON</large> | TYPE | AMMO | WEIGHT | REL | ROF | <Rose>DMG</Rose> | <Orange>CRIT</Orange> |
|^ <b>Glock 19</b> |^ Pistol |^ 9x19 |^ 5 |^ 2 |^ 1 |^ <Rose>2</Rose> |^ <Orange>-</Orange> |

Yields: