tables in forums editor?

[SMcNeill]

It's not exactly html, since you use square brackets [ ]  instead of < >. 

Yes, I did, but it was absolute chaos!

But I think you need to be in code view when you add your table - click the page looking icon, the very last icon on the toolbar.

So, it doesn't work.

I can verify 100% that it's not going to work the way you're trying to make it work. 

From your screenshot, it appears that you've basically written html and then decided, "Hey, all I need to do is swap [] for <>, and then it'll work!"  

Gosh, if we could just do that and convert from QB64PE to PYTHON, and back!!  

HTML is one distinct language.  What the forums are using is MYCODE -- a completely different language; though as you can tell, they look fairly similar at first glance.

What you want to do is go take a look over at the mybb site and see what MYCODE supports naturally:  https://docs.mybb.com/1.6/MyCode/

bold	[ b ]  [ /b ]
italic	[ i ]  [ /i ]
underline	[ u ] [ /u ]
strikethrough	[ s ] [ /s ]
URL	[ url ]http://url.com[/url] [ url=http://url.com ]My URL[ /url ]
email	[ email ]myemail@mydomain.com[ /email ] [ email=myemail@mydomain.com ]My Email[ /email ]
quote	[ quote ][ /quote ] [ quote=Author][ /quote ]
code	[ code ]  [ /code ] [ php ] [ /php ]
image	[ img ]http://mysite.com/mypic.jpg[ /img ]
font color	[ color=red ][ /color ]
font size	[ size=3 ][ /size ]
font face	[ font=tahoma ][ /font ]
text alignment	[ align=center ][ /align ]
listing	[ list ][ /list ] and [ * ]

Now, as you can see from the table I placed above, tables DO work for us. 

As you can also see, there are quite a few HTML commands which you were trying to use in your image that aren't the least bit supportted.  There's no <cite>.  Why would you even want a <br>, when a post just uses ENTER to designate the end of a line and move down to the next one??

If you also notice, there's no mention of any of the table commands in the list above, either.

Why??

Because those are the standard MYCODE commands, which you'll find supported with all versions of the mybb forum software.   [ table ] doesn't happen to be one of those commands.

Then how the BLEEP do we have a [ table ] command??

Because there's such a thing as CUSTOM MYCODE, which the admin of each site writes and adds to help expand what a user can do with the forums -- and our admin wrote in a custom mycode for [ table ].

Well, shucks, that was mighty nice of them!!

You're welcome.  All you have to do is follow the syntax for the commands as we created them, and you can use those table commands all you want now!

Well, WTF is the syntax for those commands???

That was already covered HERE.  As you can see, there's no reference to cellpadding, alignment, or anything like that...  Just a simple:

[ table=### ]  [ /table ]
[ tr ]  [ /tr]
[ td ]  [ /td ]
[ th ]  [ /th ]

Use the proper syntax, and you can use those commands.   Otherwise...   Things can get all screwed up, as you mentioned in your own post already.