[Well, the good news is that there's nothing wrong with the way YaBB coded the tables feature - the problem was the way *I* typed it in. FYI: the code for the entire table has to be on one line. (Don't hit the enter key anywhere between the start and end table tags.)
I know that might sound like it's complicated, but it's not really:
Don't type the table code on separate lines (the way you may have been taught to type HTML - and the way Web publishing software (i.e. MS FrontPage, etc.) will write it for you), like this:
[table]
[tr]
[td] pictures and/or text [/td]
[td] pictures and/or text [/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td] pictures and/or text [/td]
[td] pictures and/or text [/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td] pictures and/or text [/td]
[td] pictures and/or text [/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
because you'll end up with empty space at the top of your table, like this:
pictures and/or text |
pictures and/or text |
pictures and/or text |
pictures and/or text |
pictures and/or text |
pictures and/or text |
Do type the table code on
one line without any spaces between the various tags, like this:
[table][tr][td] pictures and/or text [/td][td] pictures and/or text [/td][/tr][tr][td] pictures and/or text [/td][td] pictures and/or text [/td][/tr][tr][td] pictures and/or text [/td][td] pictures and/or text [/td][/tr][/table]
or, if you want it to be a little more readable in case you have to go back and modify something
Do type the table code on
one line with spaces between the opening and closing brackets of each tag, like this:
[table] [tr] [td] pictures and/or text [/td] [td] pictures and/or text [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] pictures and/or text [/td] [td] pictures and/or text [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] pictures and/or text[/td] [td] pictures and/or text [/td] [/tr] [/table]
and both will give you the desired display:
pictures and/or text | pictures and/or text |
pictures and/or text | pictures and/or text |
pictures and/or text | pictures and/or text |