Table problem

[paulda...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

Have a real frustrating table problem.

I make a table of data using | | | |

The table appears fine.

Then when I edit it with | | | | the whole table format disappears so I end up with lines of text that are not in a table but have | | | | between them (like this sentence).

Whats happening?

How can I make tables without them screwing up please?

:(

[David Gifford]

Anything before or after the | | | |, even a space, it will break the table. And if you have anything non-tabley (text, html tags, etc), that will also break the table.

Tables rows need to begin and end with | (that is, with the outer borders of the table)

And tables need to have an empty line before and after.

[TonyM]

They also go funny if you do not have the correct number in each row.

I have started using html table definitions in tiddlywiki which work well and suits my structured thinking.

Tony

[David Gifford]

I moved to HTML tables recently so that I can apply classes (in my case background colors) to rows and to individual cells, something that can't be done with TW tables.

[Mat]

Particularly the bit that David mentions about accidentally having a space character after a | is devious as you can't see it.

Also, good to know; to intentionally use multiple rows lines of text in a cell, use <br>

<:-)