answer to Louie's question: how to eliminate spaces before HTML table

I think that when you post messages, the UBB software adds a < BR > to replace every carriage return.

so if you have several HTML commands following each other on separate lines,
such as
< table border=1 width="100% >
< tr >
< td >
text
< /td >
< /tr >
< /table >
You will see a blank line for every HTML command line. What I did was remove all “returns” between HTML commands, e.g.
< table border=1 width="100% >< tr >< td >text< /td >< /tr >
< tr > < td > more text > < /td > < /tr >< /table >


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H. de Livry

Thanks, Arnold.

test…
==start of code==
<table border=“1”>
<tr>
<td>#1</td>
<td>#2</td>
<td>#3</td>
<td><marquee>test</marquee></td>
<td>#4</td>
<td><font size=7>test</font></td>
</tr>
</table>
==end of code==

==start of code==
<table border=“1”><tr><td>#1</td><td>#2</td><td>#3</td><td><marquee>test</marquee></td><td>#4</td><td><font size=7>test</font></td></tr></table>
==end of code==


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Thanks, Arnold, this has been driving us CRAZY.

(Not that we had far to go or anything.)

your humble TubaDiva
for the Straight Dope

You’re welcome. Now if someone could explain to me how to prevent UBB software from “wrapping” to the next line when you have a very long html link with a hyphen in it! (it seems to wrap after the hyphen.) :slight_smile:


La franchise ne consiste pas à dire tout ce que l’on pense, mais à penser tout ce que l’on dit.
H. de Livry

Well, either it “wraps” or it lengthens the line so that you have to scroll back and forth to read it, which is a big pain. Frankly, I’d prefer the wrap.

your humble TubaDiva
for the Straight Dope

Well, sure, I don’t want the screen to become very wide, but what I meant is when you say
[ url = http: // very long link ]Link Description [ /url ]
I would be happy if it would hide the long link. Instead, it wraps, and the whole [ url ] [ / url ] code becomes a mess.

Tuba is napping - so while you wait tell me why I can’t get these darned smiley faces to work…<font color=red>Pleeeeze</font>

“Doesn’t work”? What does that mean?

try posting a message. Inside the message, put in colon, right parenthesis with no space between them.

:slight_smile:


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H. de Livry

See next thread - Tuba Tuba Tuba - Thanks!

By any chance are you allowing space between the two blocks of code?

There should be NO white space between the two brackets. As so:

{url=http://www.straightdope.com}THE STRAIGHT DOPE{/url}
(of course, substitute straight brackets for curly ones)

As per this: The Straight Dope

your humble TubaDiva
for the Straight Dope

Sure, TubaDiva, but there are some links that go beyond the line length allowed by the UBB software (at least that’s my guess.) So then it’s word-wrapped after the hyphen, which breaks the [ url ] [ / url] attempt.

e.g.

[Long link](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/srch_archive/srch-list.cgi?p=chron&y=1999&fm=01&fd=01&tm=12&td=31&cs=&es=&h=&b=&q=devil&t=sorted_search.tmpl&a=search&d=thedate&wdb=%2Fsfgate%2Fw ais%2F)