Forum:Inline table

Hey guys I've been experimenting with tables and am curious about something. Is there any way to create an inline table without breaking paragraph formatting? I've tried using both the pipe syntax tables and HTML tables with the "display: inline;" style attribute. With the pipe syntax the table always gets placed on a new line. With the HTML syntax the table will start on the correct line but it breaks the paragraph formatting. Example:

HTML table:

Paragraph number one begins here. Paragraph number one ends here. Paragraph number two begins here. Paragraph number two ends here.

Result (paragraphs are broken, so both paragraphs appear on the same line):

Paragraph number one begins here. Paragraph number one ends here.

Paragraph number two begins here. Paragraph number two ends here.

Pipe table:

Paragraph number one begins here. Paragraph number two begins here.

Result (tables are forced to begin on new line, despite being inline):

Paragraph number one begins here.

Paragraph number two begins here.

Is there any way to have a truly inline table that doesn't break the paragraph it's in? Thanks in advance. -- nonoitall 00:33, August 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * It sounds like you're asking about a wikitext generated table being inline, but I think the problem is that the wikitext table generates extraneous tags that the straight HTML table doesn't appear to.
 * The wikitext table seems to be generated with a closing  tag before it generates a   tag and that creates the annoying line break. --  Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 11:18 PM PST 6 Aug 2010


 * Yeah that was my conclusion as well. So I guess my next question is:  Is there a way to prevent the wikitext table from doing that, or to have an inline HTML table that doesn't mess up the paragraph formatting? -- nonoitall 06:57, August 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * There is nothing wrong with using HTML tables. I think it would take a MediaWiki code change to fix this issue. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 3:20 PM PST 7 Aug 2010


 * Does it have to be a table? how about some inline blocks ? 07:40, August 7, 2010 (UTC)

It would seem that they suffer from the same problem as tables.

This second sentence should be a new paragraph. -- nonoitall 08:14, August 7, 2010 (UTC)