OKAY so I spent 10 million years figuring out how the heck to make an uneven table only to put it on someone's profile and have it tip said profile over Toyhouse's mysterious invisible character limit and delete a bunch of stuff on it So.... yeah. I'm really happy with how it looks, though, and I was really looking forward to filling out this table for my characters because I love making game stats for them so much!!! But according to OpenOffice this table template alone is 10,365 characters, which I imagine is a fairly sizable chunk of the character limit that could be spent on being able to update their RP history in the future, saving responses for forum games, etc.
Here's the table in question; obviously I can't do any styling in this post but you can see what it's supposed to look like in Istra's stats tab! And also how their profile got cut off and how I'll have to fix it and hope I can remember everything that came after the cutoff ;__;
DISGAEA STATS
| EVILITIES |
|---|
EVILITY 1
|
blah blah blah etc etc words |
| EVILITY 2 |
blah blah blah etc etc words |
| EVILITY 3 |
blah blah blah etc etc words |
| APTITUDES |
|---|
 |
100% |
 |
100% |
 |
100% |
 |
100% |
 |
100% |
 |
100% |
 |
100% |
 |
100% |
| STATS |
|---|
 |
5 |
 |
20 |
 |
1 |
 |
4 |
 |
1 |
 |
10% |
| RESISTANCES |
|---|
 |
50 |
 |
50 |
 |
50 |
 |
50 |
 |
10 |
 |
10 |
 |
10 |
 |
10 |
 |
10 |
 |
10 |
 |
10 |
 |
10 |
| WEAPON MASTERY |
|---|
 |
- |
 |
- |
 |
- |
 |
- |
 |
- |
 |
- |
 |
- |
  |
A/A |
And here's the link to the raw HTML so you can see what I did, perhaps wrong: https://pastebin.com/f1etfwAx
Is there any way I can remake a table that looks at least somewhat like this using divs or something like that? I'm not an expert on web programming, but I feel like something this simple really shouldn't take 10k+ characters out of my profiles.
I know I could do some shortening by fixing some of the things Toyhouse added on its own - like using CSS to center things instead of using the WYSIWYG editor to center things which makes it add that HTML to every single cell and deleting all of the extraneous image information I didn't put in - and reuploading the images to imgur (which has shorter image urls) instead of Gyazo. I really need to make the images more consistent at some point, anyway...
OR maybe I could eschew images entirely, but I don't really want to do that unless I absolutely have to since otherwise there's not really a way to make the cell headers stand out. I made those cells headers before, but that makes it look like a really ugly checkerboard, particularly the aptitude section since there's an uneven number of cells there. But I'm willing to get rid of images if there's a way to make the headers clearly headers without clashing with... uh... the bigger headers and also each other!
So, yeah! Is there any way to salvage this table and not make it take up a huge chunk of my valuable profile space? There are a couple of things in my profiles I could maybe cut out (even then I don't know if it'd be enough), but overall I can't really afford having one single table eat up so much space. But I also really really REALLY want to be able to use it real bad!! I'm super desperate for help!!!
EDIT: Also, if anyone knows what toyhouse's character limit is that'd be super helpful so i can tell how close i'm getting in the future! I put the source code in OpenOffice and it came up with 53,748, but that seems like a weirdly specific number. Does it count CSS as well or something?