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Tables in Posts

Minnow

Minnow

If you're gonna dig, dig to the heavens!
I was setting up my Safari Zone profile and I was having some trouble trying to get it to look the way I wanted. I decided to just put the info into Excel and keep that myself and just have the sprites on the profile, but, by accident, I discovered that if I copied the spreadsheet cells into the post-editor it looked exactly the way I wanted it too (using the WYSIWYG mode), and seemed to make a table with the data I'd put into the spreadsheet already.

I thought, "Oh, that's cool, I didn't realize I could make tables in my posts."

But then when I previewed it the table was gone, it just squished all the text together instead of tabling it. So, the question is, is there a way to put tables like that into your posts?

Screenshot of the post-editor looking exactly as I want.
 
That's probably a matter of it spacing it out with tab in the editor, but then it removes extraneous whitespace in the post body text when it's posted. You can try putting [code][/code] tags around it.
 
The code tags just do:

Code: 
BULBASAUR ETC.

But, see, the thing is that in the editor I can see it's a table. I highlight it and a grid shows up. And I can move the whole thing around like an object, delete columns and rows, etc. It just transmutes itself into vanilla text once it's previewed or posted.
 
Well, in that case it's a feature of the editor, but there is no such feature in the actual forums; all the editor does is translate your WYSIWYG to BBCode that then gets stored, and there is no table BBCode. :/
 
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