# WP Discourse HTML Format not carried over

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-html-format-not-carried-over/66939>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [Juillet 27, 2017, 4:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-html-format-not-carried-over/66939 "2017-07-27T16:09:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)\
**Post date:** [Juillet 27, 2017, 6:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-html-format-not-carried-over/66939/4 "2017-07-27T18:15:48Z")

</div>

> [@dgrant](#):
>
> It would seem to be a useful thing to be able to insert tables into Discourse, I wonder why they strip them out and if they might change that?

The onebox is supposed to be a teaser for the content, not the content itself. I expect that tables are troublesome because they are much harder to summarize into a fixed height area, and Discourse relies very heavily on known content sizes for layout.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-html-format-not-carried-over/66939)._