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KWhit

02-24-2005, 07:29 PM

I am trying to put together some HTML formatting for my dynasty but I'm having some trouble. When I preview it locally in IE it comes out fine. When I post it here at FOFC, it comes out strange with a ton of white space before it.

My next post will be an example of what I'm talking about.

What am I doing wrong?

KWhit

02-24-2005, 07:30 PM

<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#C0C0C0" width="624" id="AutoNumber1">
<tr>
<td width="12" bgcolor="#800000" rowspan="3">1</td>
<td width="285" rowspan="3">Las Vegas Legion (Chaos)</td>
<td width="66" rowspan="3"><img border="1" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/KWhit/Las_Vegas_Logo.jpg" width="60" height="60"></td>
<td width="207" colspan="3">Valentin Cineceros</td>
<td width="34" rowspan="3" bgcolor="#808080">SP</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="69" align="center" bgcolor="#FF0000">Stuff</td>
<td width="69" align="center" bgcolor="#FF0000">Control</td>
<td width="69" align="center" bgcolor="#FF0000">Movement</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="69" align="center">78</td>
<td width="69" align="center">61</td>
<td width="69" align="center">81</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="12" bgcolor="#800000" rowspan="3">2</td>
<td width="285" rowspan="3">Carson City Moonlite (Chaos)</td>
<td width="66" rowspan="3"><img border="1" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/KWhit/Carson_City_Logo.jpg" width="60" height="60"></td>
<td width="207" colspan="3">William "Colonel" Collins</td>
<td width="34" rowspan="3" bgcolor="#808080">3B</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="69" align="center" bgcolor="#FF0000">Contact</td>
<td width="69" align="center" bgcolor="#FF0000">Power</td>
<td width="69" align="center" bgcolor="#FF0000">Eye</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="69" align="center">83</td>
<td width="69" align="center">90</td>
<td width="69" align="center">73</td>
</tr></table>

GoldenEagle

02-24-2005, 07:34 PM

I am having the same problem.

KWhit

02-24-2005, 07:35 PM

Help us Obi Wan Kenobi. You're our only hope.

sabotai

02-24-2005, 07:38 PM

The problem is the board interprets new lines as new lines. Basically all the spacing is the br's, p's and new lines in the HTML.

KWhit

02-24-2005, 07:43 PM

So I need to just make my HTML a single long string of crap?

sabotai

02-24-2005, 07:44 PM

Yup

EDIT: Why are your [br] wrote as [br /]. I've never seen that. (replace [] with <>)

GoldenEagle

02-24-2005, 07:47 PM

I fixed it by going into the edit screen and deleting all the white space.

Wolfpack

02-25-2005, 11:03 AM

Yup

EDIT: Why are your [br] wrote as [br /]. I've never seen that. (replace [] with <>)

That's probably the XML seeping through. In XML, you can't have an unclosed tag like in HTML. Therefore if you have a singleton tag like "br", the proper thing to do is to type "br /" betweeen the brackets.

KWhit

02-25-2005, 11:07 AM

Not sure why the tags were like that. I used Frontpage to start the tables and then cut and pasted the bits I needed into notepad to finish it up. I assume what your seeing was generated like that from FP.

I finally got it to look the way I want by deleting all the spacing and carriage returns in the text. Pain in my ass.

Mr. Wednesday

02-27-2005, 01:19 AM

If you've got, say, Excel, you might doing up your tables in that and pasting into the WYSIWYG here. It's worked perfectly when I've tried it.

KWhit

02-27-2005, 08:37 AM

I'll give that a go next time. Thanks.