I have a bunch of tables in my character information. When I sent then to the GM in a PM, the table headings end up left-aligned. When I put the tables in my character sheet for the story, the table headings end up centered.

Is this intentional?

In reply to Alhaja (msg #1):

You may need to explicitly tell it where you want the text.

Personally, I just use <pre></pre> tags for all my character sheet purposes.

:-)

That way I do not have to manually type out all the table parts to make it format the way I want it too.  ^.^

My recollection is that the html codes that could be used to change the alignment in tables don't work on RPoL along with other useful things such as "span."

I thought about making the character sheet text-based rather than putting it in tables, but I like the way the tables look better (and I'm pretty finicky about how things look). Once the tables are set up, it's pretty easy to maintain.

Mostly, I thought it was odd that it was inconsistent...

Maybe you can force them to be left-aligned by using the align="left" attribute? (I believe you have to use them for *every* tr/th tag, so it gets very cumbersome very quickly.) I've not had trouble with tables (well... once I re-remembered the code), but I've never used them in character sheets.

Hmmm...  I thought we couldn't use align, but I guess it's something else that I'm thinking of. That's useful to know.

I have done some testing:

<td align="center/right/left"> works.

<table align="center/right/left"> works.

Some experimentation is in order still.  :)

colspan does not work.

In reply to burlingk (msg #6):

Colspan is so critical to having to format correctly... I have a sweet character sheet that I cant get any better,

The alternative to colspan is not as pretty but works kinda is this


<tr><td> Text </td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>

It would result in "empty cells"

actually to make the width of a top table cell strentch full lenfgth of th top of the table it is best to type in <table width=50%><tr><th>Tablename</th></tr></table><table width=50%><tr><th>dasdu</th><th>dingo</th></tr></table> which then results int he following

I may have to play with tables a little, my current character sheet format I share is simply tabbed, which makes it a lot easier for my players to edit, but the tabs do not work outside of character sheets at all, so you can't post properly aligned character sheets.

actually when typing out a character sheet and can't use tabs, use the <tt></tt> command around the sheet, the formatting will remain as you typed it, all the spaces and everything will be preserved nice and formally

thanks for the tip!

Oh, and you should use the space bar multiple times instead of tabs.