Dave, then I believe the only solution is to either use a separate
table for each post, or to not use any tables at all. AFAIK there is
no way to prevent wide posts from messing up the rest of the
page, if all the posts are within one large table.
Why the heck does anyone want to format BBoard posts inside an HTML
table anyway? I mean, if the post has really wide content, then I
want the important date and links at the top to also be
shoved all the way over to the right where I can't see our use them
without scrolling sideways? No way, that sucks.
If you really want the pretty table background colors, then
wrapping the body of each post in its own table, but leaving the
header and links for each post out, or in their own separate
table immediately above, would fix the UI while still preserving
pretty colors. I suspect simply leaving the title and links out of
the table would look better than putting them in their own table.
But frankly, having the new BBoard be at least as easy to use and read
as the old BBoard is much more important to me than pretty colors...
I don't see any compelling advantage of using HTML tables with pretty
colors at all, vs. the traditional "separate each post with an
<hr>" look of the BBoard.
