Creating a Table with HTML: blank space problem

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by RedKnight

Although documentation does suggest the use of with or without quotation marks I did try both ways with the same result.

Now, with some tinkering I have been able to confirm that for some unknown reason the what is displaying is all non-coded blank spaces before the table, so using the code as:

<table border=1 cellpadding=5 width=100%><tr><th>Column 1</th><th>Column 2</th><th>Column 3</th><th>Column 4</th><th>Column 5</th></tr><tr><td>Item 1</td><td>Item 2</td><td>Item 3</td><td>Item 4</td><td>Item 5</td></tr><tr><td>Item A</td><td>Item B</td><td>Item C</td><td>Item D</td><td>Item E</td></tr></table>

eliminates all the blank space, but does produce a coding nightmare. There must be something that I am missing that is having all the non-coded sections included for some reason.

With something like that, I would run the Source Code through the vaildator and see if there are any errors and tackle them from the top down. Since this is on your board, you could have an unrelated code error creating the issue with the post.

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Originally Posted by RedKnight

Although documentation does suggest the use of with or without quotation marks I did try both ways with the same result.

Now, with some tinkering I have been able to confirm that for some unknown reason the what is displaying is all non-coded blank spaces before the table, so using the code as:

<table border=1 cellpadding=5 width=100%><tr><th>Column 1</th><th>Column 2</th><th>Column 3</th><th>Column 4</th><th>Column 5</th></tr><tr><td>Item 1</td><td>Item 2</td><td>Item 3</td><td>Item 4</td><td>Item 5</td></tr><tr><td>Item A</td><td>Item B</td><td>Item C</td><td>Item D</td><td>Item E</td></tr></table>

eliminates all the blank space, but does produce a coding nightmare. There must be something that I am missing that is having all the non-coded sections included for some reason.

Wait, I just realized something. Quick question. You say this is BBCode, right? In what manner are you presenting tables as BBCode?