Hi,
For whatever reason, the only way I can get a table to work on my page is like this:

If I use the < symbol it will not display properly. What I would like to do is put a border around the table.
I have searched the web for days but cannot find any help, it all leads to using the< tag but they will not work.
Can anyone help me please?

Thanks in advance
Alan

I'm going to guess it's because you don't have a <tr> in there. This is the correct structure for a two row one column table with a 5px black border. <th> can be replaced with <td>, they seem to be fairly interchangeable. I'm not an html expert so I couldn't tell you the exact reasoning behind it, or why your code above works. I'm going to take another guess that the browser is just ignoring all the table references you have and dropping your image and text in wherever it likes.

<table width="100%" border="5px" bordercolor="#000000">
<tr>
<th scope="col">&nbsp;</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">&nbsp;</th>
</tr>
</table>

What is happening on the server to convert the square-bracket markup into HTML? This looks like something similar to BBCode, which isn't HTML at all. You may be limited to what your square-bracket markup system allows.

Thanks for the reply but like I said the page will not accept a table that starts with < code. It only seems to work using the [ style tags.

Then you need to figure out what "the page" will accept. This isn't about HTML. This is about whatever the program running on the server will accept.

So what is it? A message board like this one?

It is the first page which leads to a forum but as far as I knew it was html.

The output is always HTML. If you view source here, all you see is HTML. You cant see the program behind it.

If it is normal BBCode, I've never seen a way to add table borders. Does this forum have a help page maybe?