I Also Want To Use HTML Tags

Josem · #1 10-09-2007, 09:22 PM

Folks,

In this post here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...=1#Post12434305

The OP gets to use HTML tags (<table> and whatnot)

Can this be made more widely available pls?

Adrian20XX · #2 10-09-2007, 10:04 PM

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Folks,

In this post here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...=1#Post12434305

The OP gets to use HTML tags (<table> and whatnot)

Can this be made more widely available pls?

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Please, can you add the table funtionallity for all of us???
I want to start a new thread in poker software, making a list containing the name, the type of game (holdem, omaha, ...), price, status on different poker rooms, cost, and more information.
The ability to use html tables would be a terrific help, and I'm sure more people will find more uses to this same feature.
TIA & Regards ...

NT! · #3 10-09-2007, 10:07 PM

if you are making a thread that will really benefit the forums and merits the use of tables, you can probably get a mod to code it for you.

otherwise, get your own websites.

MrWookie · #4 10-09-2007, 10:09 PM

Giving all users HTML capabilities is a pretty significant security risk, I think. Plus, you would end up with many incredibly obnoxious posts by people who discover the blink tag for the first time.

kerowo · #5 10-09-2007, 10:16 PM

Now you know what it's like to want.

_dave_ · #6 10-09-2007, 10:27 PM

I have posted about this before somewhere, maybe even here.

It requires a small change to the main stylesheet, specifying a font-family:monospace for the UBB code tags.

I certainly posted thanks when this change was implemented in the ill-fated UBB 7 upgrade, but that post was nuked along with many others when the upgrade was rolled back.

I guess we don't worry about fixing layout issues on here until the new forum software is rolled out?

Troll_Inc · #7 10-09-2007, 10:28 PM

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Folks,

In this post here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...=1#Post12434305

The OP gets to use HTML tags (<table> and whatnot)

Can this be made more widely available pls?

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Mike Haven has the tags for sale, but he won't accept payment.

ZeTurd · #8 10-09-2007, 10:48 PM

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Giving all users HTML capabilities is a pretty significant security risk, I think. Plus, you would end up with many incredibly obnoxious posts by people who discover the blink tag for the first time.

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Yeah, giving regular users full access to HTML would be madness. I'm even a little skeptical of giving it to mods. Some day a rogue mod is going to insert a nasty little SQL injection and screw up the whole site. Or even worse, start abusing the <blink> tag.

An alternative solution is to install a mod allowing users to create tables via BBCode. Not sure if such a mod exists for UBB.threads, but I know it exists for various other forum platforms. I guess it's pretty moot now though, since a switch to new forum software is supposed to be pretty imminent.

MrWookie · #9 10-09-2007, 10:56 PM

Yeah, there's no way that any new mods will be introduced to the hack job currently running this forum when a switch is looming (I wouldn't say immanent, though. There's still a fair bit of testing to do). When we switch to vBulletin, it'll probably be easier to implement this anyway.

_dave_ · #10 10-09-2007, 11:04 PM

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When we switch to vBulletin, it'll probably be easier to implement this anyway.

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Seriously, it a tiny alteration to http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/st...ts/infopop.css

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
pre {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
...
</pre><hr />

Needs fixing to specify a PRE font - of which these are not.

Could it even be implemented in a theme if not in the main stylesheet?

EDIT: Whoops, changing my prefs to check looks like infopop.css is the theme. So, any themes already have a pre-formatted font by default for PRE tags?