BBCode problem: table tag

Whenever I use BBcode table tags in a post, everything between table and /table is put on a single line when the post is edited later.

Code:

[table border="1"]
[tr]
[td]Field 1[/td]
[td]Field 2[/td]
[td]Field 3[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

Field 1

Field 2

Field 3

becomes

Code:

[table border="1"][tr][td]Field 1[/td][td]Field 2[/td][td]Field 3[/td][/tr][/table]

Field 1

Field 2

Field 3

Now imagine it's 40 rows and 12 columns, with a slew of bbcode tags and cell row/colspans... and jumbled together on a single line...

Hello,

This happens because BBCodes ignores unnecessary white space. So it will combine the tags and remove spaces or line breaks.

I don't think you can stop this to happen.

ankillien wrote:Hello,

This happens because BBCodes ignores unnecessary white space. So it will combine the tags and remove spaces or line breaks.

I don't think you can stop this to happen.

This wasn't always the case. I think I started noticing it a few months back, although I thought it was a one-off fluke and didn't bother to check into it further.

The "Insert a Table" button on top will generate a decent looking table, but this gets butchered as well after posting.

It definitely is a bug. Don't you think it's rather odd that user-entered text is turned into a jumbled mess? I don't want to keep offline copies of my posts in a .txt file because some piece of code is corrupting certain pieces of text because they follow a certain format... Rendering BB tags into html should not involve corrupting the original source.