[Forum] How to post tables in forums

[helal_ph]

When I copied content that was in a table , it was displayed this way:

Year

$ price

1940

0.25

1950

0.36

1968

0.40

1979

0.60

[Steve Machol]

That requires enabling HTML is posts which is a security risk and something we do not recommend. If you are using HTML anyway, then what is the exact HTML code for that post?

[helal_ph]

I just noticed that many site , their "wyswyg" is complete . Any thing you copy and past , it will go as is. Do they ignore this security issue

Sample : yahoo mail , where you can copy and past any thing and it will be the same like the original

[Trevor Hannant]

We can't speak for sites that use their own or other software I'm afraid

[Glenn_E]

Does the security risk still apply, if the table were put into a thread that is locked?

[Trevor Hannant]

It's not the post itself that's the security risk, it's the allowing users to post HTML that's the risk

[Glenn_E]

Thanks Trevor... If a user that does not have access to post HTML replies with quote to a post with HTML, what happens? I'm hoping it strips the HTML.

[helal_ph]

We can't speak for sites that use their own or other software I'm afraid

Now how the user can copy and paste and get his post look well formatted ( if the original was a table ) ?
The sample I showed at the start is table of 2 columns , but when posted in vbulletin , the result is one column ?

[Glenn_E]

Table formatting appears to be stripped, when posted. If the thread is locked from user input or posting, sounds like you can use HTML as noted above. Otherwise, a quick fix is to take a snapshot and save as .jpg and post inline.

[nakedanvil]

The default vBulletin HTML permission is by forum. I use a mod that allows HTML permission by usergroup. Sure love it.

[Glenn_E]

Does the usergroup mod strip html from quoted responses? Perhaps this is the answer for helal_ph as well

[nakedanvil]

Here's the mod: PERMISSION BY USERGROUP

I'm 99% certain it will not parse HTML in a quote, but what if it did? Can't see a situation where that would be a problem.