Question

• TWiki version: 01 Feb 2003
• Perl version: 5.6.1
• Web server & version: Apache, 1.3.26
• Server OS: Debian 3.0r1 (latest stable)
• Web browser & version: Konqueror, KDE 3.1.1
• Client OS: Debian Sid (latest unstable...mmm, yeah)

I have a pipe character that needs to go in a table, like so:

|  ||   | or  |
  ^^ the problem children

But it's not me that's doing it (it's one of my users), so I'd rather not teach them the HTML code if at all possible.

I've tried:

| <verbatim>||</verbatim>  | or |

and I've tried

| <pre>||</pre>  | or |

I've even tried (out of desperation):

| <nop>||  | or |

They won't quake and quail at a simple special character, but HTML tables will cause them to collapse on the floor and start frothing at the mouth. While it is entertaining to have them do that on cue, it does get old.

Thanks for your help, -- AlanShields - 24 Apr 2003

Answer

The vertical bar wasn't available on most HTML entity tables I found, but this seems to work for me(Opera 7.03)

| *this works* | 
|  |  | 

-- OleCMeldahl - 24 Apr 2003