[support] I just want a simple table

[Metzler, David]

It's a bit unclear from what you are describing which modules you are using to make a front page, etc. 

Unless you have a wysiwyg editor installed, there is nothing in a drupal distribution that would prevent you from using any html in your node's body assuming that you are using a Full Html text format.  I suspect that you either are using an input filter that is limiting your markup, or that you have a wysiwyg in play. You can tell which is the culprit by checking to see wether the width="200" disappears in the node edit window, or whether it only disappears when displaying the node. 

Unsolicited advice: Ideally though you will be much happier with your drupal installation if you do take the time to learn views, and consider styling with Css instead of tables with fixed width.    

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Prothero William
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:02 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] I just want a simple table

Folks:
I'm in Drupal 7, working on my front page. I simply want to make a layout grid that lets me align a small image, and a text explanation to the right. It will have some number of rows, 2 columns. With normal html, I would create a table with the left boundary equal to the width of the image and just put the text into the second column. However, the editor will not let me set the width of column 1. It only allows me to make a column with half the width of the full table. In other words, it deletes the width="200px" part of the <td> tag. I want <td width-"200px">

I've looked at the various "responsive table" modules, including fooTable and semantic views. These are just too complex for me to use to make the one simple table on my site. I don't want to make the investment of time right now to learn Views and other related modules.

Isn't there a simple way to make a table like the one I described?

Thanks for any direction.
Bill

Prothero William
waprothero at gmail.com



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