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[Greg Bernhardt]

The Table bbcode works exactly like the html tags. You have table, th, tr, td. Just replace the html brackets <> without bbcode brackets [] and remember to close each element out.

There is an icon next to the superscript to start you out. See this link for more information: https://www.physicsforums.com/help/bb-codes

Cell 1	Cell 2
Cell 3	Cell 4
Cell 5	Cell 6

One of the quirks with the editor is that you need to end up putting all the table tags in one line instead of nicely laid out with line breaks. The line breaks will show in the post and the table will end up being pushed far down the post.

 

[mfb]

Concerning line breaks, it is possible to include them at the end of the cells, directly between content and [/td]. This way they don't influence how the post is shown, but they allow to make the source code a bit more readable.

Cell 1	Cell 2
Cell 3	Cell 4
Cell 5	Cell 6

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[jtbell]

Sometimes the row spacing gets a little bit wacky:

Name	Sample	LaTeX code
Blackboard bold	\mathbb{ABCDE}	\mathbb{ABCDE}
Calligraphic	\mathcal{ABCDE}	\mathcal{ABCDE}
Fraktur	\mathfrak{ABCDE}	\mathfrak{ABCDE}
Sans serif	\mathsf{ABCDE}	\mathsf ABCDE}
Roman (upright)	\mathrm{ABCDE}	\mathrm{ABCDE}
Bold	\mathbf{ABCDE}	\mathbf{ABCDE}
Typewriter	\mathtt{ABCDE}	\mathtt{ABCDE}

[td] [/td]

[td][/td]

 

[jtbell]

Does this support rowspan? Let's see...

Name	Sample	LaTeX code
Infinity	\infty	\infty

[td] [tr][td]Planck's constant
[/td][td]\hbar
[/td][td]\hbar
[/td][/tr][tr][td rowspan=2]Plus or minus
[/tr][/td][tr][td]\pm
[/td][td]\pm
[/td][/tr][td]\mp
[/td][td]\mp
[/td][/tr][tr][td]Parallel
[/td][td]\parallel
[/td][td]\parallel
[/td][/tr][tr][td]Perpendicular
[/td][td]\perp
[/td][td]\perp
[/td][/tr][tr][td]For all
[/td][td]\forall
[/td][td]\forall
[/td][/tr][tr][td]There exists
[/td][td]\exists
[/td][td]\exists
[/td][/tr][tr][td]Ellipsis
[/td][td]\dots,\cdots,\vdots,\ddots
[/td][td]\dots,\cdots,\vdots,\ddots
[/td][/tr]

I guess not. :(

 

[mfb]

Those tags are a simple replacement of [td] to <td> and so on. For vBulletin, there is a nice and more powerful table addon, I have no idea if something similar exists for XF.[/td]