How to create a table in a post on this forum?

[glacierjay]

Hello, I'd like to put a table in a post on this forum (cpaptalk.com). I tried BBCode and HTML but no luck. I suspect I am missing a trick. Any ideas how to produce a table in a post? Thanks, Jay

PS here's the simple BBCode I was trying:

[table]
[tr]
[th]Battery[/th]
[th]Hours sleep[/th]
[th]Wh measured[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Baseus[/td]
[td]24[/td]
[td]74[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Nitecore[/td]
[td]13[/td]
[td]41[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]RavPower[/td]
[td]28.5/td]
[td]88[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Renogy(12V)[/td]
[td]74/td]
[td]211[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

[Dog Slobber]

I don't think phpBB forum natively supports tables.

[palerider]

Any ideas how to produce a table in a post?

You don't.

[ChicagoGranny]

How to create a table in a post on this forum?Quote glacierjay

Create the table on your PC. Snip it as a picture file. Put it on a host site like imgur. Post it here using the picture icon.

(I anticipate some hilarity.)

[glacierjay]

How to create a table in a post on this forum?Quote glacierjay

Create the table on your PC. Snip it as a picture file. Put it on a host site like imgur. Post it here using the picture icon.

Thank! Exactly what I plan to do when I need a table.

[glacierjay]

It is not working for me. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Imgur gives me an image URL : https://imgur.com/a/A7wv21G which works OK when I browse it.

On this forum I try the image, the generated BBCode looks like this:

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[img] https://imgur.com/a/A7wv21G [/img]

But I see only a broken image link in the preview:


I did it by clicking on the "insert image" button, and inserting the URL from Imgur between img and /img that the button inserts.

Very puzzled. Thanks for any help.

[Dog Slobber]

You are providing the URL of the page hosting the image in the image tag, not the URL of the image.

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[img]https://i.imgur.com/0cU93Ah.jpeg[/img]

I got the image URL by right clicking on image and then Copy image address

[Pugsy]

Try logging on to your imgur account.
Then go to the image and on the right side you should see these address choices


copy the bbc code line and just insert it in the body of your text. It already contains the needed brackets so no need to try to use the forum editor.
See the 2 codes I have red arrows to??? it's the top one.

[glacierjay]

That's better. Thanks. I should have had my coffee before asking