Tables in news posts won't work well with new lines

[The_mad_one]

Hi,

Djoing and me have this new post with a table for keeping scores. Trivial little thing, but:

When we declare the table like this:

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<table border='1'>
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>
</table>


We expect to see

*-----*
____________
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|

*-----*

But in stead, we get:

*-----*








____________
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|

*-----*

For some reason, it responds to every new line by adding that line above the table.


If we enter this:

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<table border='1'>
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>text
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>text
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>text
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>text
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>text
<tr><td>blabla</td><td>blabla</td></tr>text
</table>


We get this:

*-----*


text
text
text
text
text
text
____________
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|
|blabla|blabla|

*-----*

Not sure what causes it, but it would be nice if that would be fixed. Right now, our only solution is to place the entire block of html on a single illegible line.

Hope this helps, thanks in advance!

[eishiya]

This is expected behaviour. Any text in a table that's not contained in <td> is shown at the start of the table.

SJ processes news posts and converts all the linebreaks into <br> (the HTML code for a linebreak). Since this is considered text, and it's outside any table data cells, it's printed at the start of the table. The News posts are supposed to be regular text like in comments, and there's not much that can be done to preserve the line breaks in normal text while also making it easy for HTML code to work properly.
In templates, SJ does not convert linebreaks to <br>, which is why it doesn't happen in the templates.

The HTML functionality in comments and news posts wasn't meant for things like tables, I guess. Sadly, I think all you can do is have your code in one run-on line, as changing SJ's parser to automatically (and accurately) determine whether a linebreak is intentional or incidental is far more work than it's worth.

[The_mad_one]

Makes sense, I guess. Too bad...

Thanks for your response.

[Asj]

what if you fill in that space with words? Like, if you want to say something before you add the table, add it between the table rows instead. That way, it'll use up the extra space at the top.

[The_mad_one]

Frankly, I think that would make the code even more difficult to read. ^^'

[Asj]

...maybe. But it's the kind of weird thing I'd do. ^_^"