18 Jun 2020, 19:14
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So, I see a lot of people on their encyclopedias have quote boxes next to each other vertically, or a quote box on the right and a picture on the left vertically, etc. I have no idea how to do that, so if anyone had a clue what I'm talking about, could you please tell me how?

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18 Jun 2020, 19:27
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Hello, @Nell Zoldak

this aspect is actually pretty hard to do unless you have been on here a while and been toying with the tables. I haven't been able to master them yet but there are a few people around who would like to teach other people or maybe even code your ency for you.

Some simple examples: I'm using random pictures off of the internet.
Image
Birth Name |
Date of Birth |
House |
Studies |
Species |
Ethnicity |
Blood Status |
Accent |
Height |
Hair Colour |
Eye Colour |
Star Sign |
Wand |
Speciality |
Patronus |
Mirror of Erised |
Boggart |
Amortentia |

Inspired by Hjørdis Jensen
code:

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[quote][table][tr][td][center][img]/images/upload/uhyr75.jpg[/img][/center][/td]
[td][size=90][i][b]Birth Name[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Date of Birth[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]House[/b][/i] |
[i][b]Studies[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Species[/b][/i] |
[i][b]Ethnicity[/b][/i] |
[i][b]Blood Status[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Accent[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Height[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Hair Colour[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Eye Colour[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Star Sign[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Wand[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Speciality[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Patronus[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Mirror of Erised[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Boggart[/b][/i] | 
[i][b]Amortentia[/b][/i] | [/size]
[revelio][size=65]Inspired by Hjørdis Jensen[/size][/revelio][/td][/tr][/table][/quote]

Full Name:
Star sign:
Species:
Age:
House:
Blood Type:

code:

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[quote][center][table][tr][td][quote]Full Name:[/quote][/td]
[td][quote]Star sign:[/quote][/td]
[td][quote]Species:[/quote][/td][/tr]
[tr][td][quote]Age:[/quote][/td]
[td][quote]House:[/quote][/td]
[td][quote]Blood Type:[/quote][/td][/tr][/table]
[/quote][/center]
These are VERY simple designs. After you have mastered these you might want to try do some harder ones. You can go to peoples encys. You will see a quatation mark. Press that and you can copy and paste the tables into your own ency and style it how you like but remember to praise the original person who did it.

If it is something really simple like the second coding you probably don't need to credit the person because it is so simple. Some of the codes are to simple that the boxes are not the same sizes. You can probably see this in the second one. This requires a bigger level of coding so if you politely ask someone they may help you.

The first one [from professor Jensen] actually is not meant to look like that. I have tweaked it a little bit for my own use that I need for the future. The words are not in the correct space and the photo looks a bit to big but that doesn't matter. You can find the original coding at Professor Jensen's ency.

I hope this helped you understand what people are doing, how hard it is to do, and how it is done.
-Lizzie Verdine

|| Charmer || Statistically Relevant ||
|| Stamina - 5 || Evasion - 6 || Strength - 11 || Wisdom - 7 || Arcane Power - 6 || Accuracy - 7 ||

18 Jun 2020, 19:33
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Thank you so much for the explanation! These codes really helped, and I sure will play around with them!

Many thanks,
Nell Zoldak

STA: 6 EVA: 8 STR: 5 WIS: 9 AP: 5 ACC: 7
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18 Jun 2020, 19:38
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One thing I just wanna throw in here (as someone who's been trying, getting frustrated, and giving up with BBCode based tables) is that you can't set parameters on your tables, which means they sort of function on their own accord in some ways.

So like, you can't set a width for your table columns in bbcode, which means that, depending on the amount of text you want to add next to a photo, the photo will automatically resize smaller as preference is given to text sort of automatically.

An example:
Image
Rebecca Gollens, mother
Elspeth also loves her mom, though their relationship is a little more complicated by the fact that her mother has homeschooled her. Rebecca is a bit of an anxious witch, haunted by the visions she has in her sleep of the future (though whether any of them have actually come to bear is a different story). She's shown her love for Elspeth through caring for her and working tirelessly to make sure that she's kept safe. From a young age Elspeth was aware that not all of her mother's worries were completely founded. Instead of rebelling against those restrictions, though, she realized that her mom was just trying her best. And so, Elspeth has always felt like one of her jobs as her mother's daughter was to help reassure her mom that everything was ultimately going to be okay. Her mother was in Hufflepuff while at Hogwarts and currently works odd jobs as a freelance magical repair person. Harbors intense disdain for their goblin heritage, and kept it a secret from Elspeth until Elspeth's grandmother showed up when she was 12 years old. Is deeply upset by Elspeth's decision to have a relationship with her.
The photo itself is 200 pixels wide, but the table autoshrinks it because there's so much text.

Not sure what you're wanting to do, but just wanted to give you a heads up that bbcode tables are fickle and mostly suited to smaller amounts of text (I spent waaaaaay too much of my time the other day failing at this).

|| t r u n k ||
Stamina: 4 | Evasion: 6 | Strength: 4 | Wisdom: 4 | Arcane Power: 6 | Accuracy: 6

18 Jun 2020, 19:47
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Oh! Thank you for telling me that. I will have to play around a bit, I guess.

Many thanks,
Nell Zoldak

STA: 6 EVA: 8 STR: 5 WIS: 9 AP: 5 ACC: 7
Sixth Sense | Prodigal Charms Learner
"mindset first, actions second.” -unknown