problems with tables, strange code changes poping up, page doesn't show

  • I’ve been having issues for days, just when i think im out of the woods i get slammed with some new issue. from what i gather this is how the table should look for one row of three cells

    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="684" height="272" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<?tr>

    so after visually adding/editing things to a table the page would not display…just header menu and comment box. i reverted back to a save that works.

    Now pages html code opens like this (without the first <tr>)

    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="684" height="272" align="center">
<tbody>

<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<?tr>

    at this point if i view the page or preview changes and all is fine.

    IF I togle to visual and back to html the code changes to what you would think it should be, with the first <tr> where it should be.
    But!!!!when i now view page or preview changes…i get the blank page.
    Does anyone know why im having so much trouble with tables? its so so frustrating. I have so many images that having to redo a whole table is really time consuming and i need to be able to update the tables without all hell breaking lose.
    -Thanks

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  • Do not switch between editing tabs. That’s a sure fire way to mess up your code. Pick a tab and stick to it. And never paste markup in from something like Word.

    Have you looked at https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-table-reloaded/

    Thread Starter Missouriflies

    (@missouriflies)

    yes I have but it seems so much easier to work in a more visual, “intuitive” sense(at least it did). can you or anyone explain why my saved code “the only one that works” is missing the first <tr> ? if i revert back to that code…all is well…if i insert the <tr> i get nothing…now if i go and delete the <tr> i just typed in it still doesn’t work . wtf. could this be any more frustrating. also, how do I update the page when working with the html tab. i don’t see the side bar with the update button. thank you for your help.
    it is much appreciated.

    it seems so much easier to work in a more visual, “intuitive” sense

    Unfortunately, “visual & intuitive”, “tables” and “WordPress” don’t really belong in the same sentence. Out of all of the standard (non-interactive) HTML markup, tables are the most difficult to wrangle in a WYSIWYG editor. If you are not comfortable hand-coding tables in the HTML Editor (hey – I’ve been doing that for 12+ years and they still give me headaches), then WP Table Reloaded really is the next best thing. One of my non-technical clients is now using it to create quite large sizing tables on her site – apparently with very few problems.

    how do I update the page when working with the html tab. i don’t see the side bar with the update button

    Are you using full screen editing?

    Thread Starter Missouriflies

    (@missouriflies)

    lol lol oh lord, i dont know what a full screen edit is…but looks like i’ve got some serious work one way or the other. Thinking I will have to go to the table reloaded probably a lot less trouble in the end, or just ditch the table all together, we’ll see. Esmi, thank you for your help. when your down and out its good to get any advice at all (not that yours is ho hum).
    thank you for your help.
    as an aside, perhaps i can creat a new table drag and drop my image links, thats helped in the past, I’ll try that first, if not its off to other options. at least i can probably open two windows, one with the table code already generated and table re-loaded in the other then just copy and past from one to the other(or not?)off to work I go.

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