Title: Invalid Data Import
Last modified: May 24, 2017
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# Invalid Data Import
* Resolved [azaru3l](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaru3l/)
* (@azaru3l)
* [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/)
* Hello.
* First of all, I would like to thank you for this incredible plugin.
I would
like to ask for help, I have an html page coded to have a table so I am trying
to import that page into tablepress but I always encounter with an error Invalid
Data. Would you kindly guide me and point me toward the right direction so I
can import the html page into tablepress successfully without the error? Thanks
again
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* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9163604)
* Hi,
* thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
* It’s hard to tell what’s wrong here without seeing that page. It might for example
be possible that the HTML code for the table is invalid.
Can you please post
a link to the page with the table where this problem happens, so that I can take
a direct look? Thanks!
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [azaru3l](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaru3l/)
* (@azaru3l)
* [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9165881)
* Thanks for your reply. I would like to share the link but unfortunately its develop
for in house use which required intranet connection in order to access it. Would
it be fine if I share directly the code of the page where the table that I would
like to import to tablepress?
* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9167007)
* Hi,
* yes, that should work. Can you email it? My address is in the main plugin file“
tablepress.php”.
* Just to be sure: The WordPress instance is in that same intranet, i.e. it can
access that HTML page?
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [azaru3l](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaru3l/)
* (@azaru3l)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9169474)
* Hello Mr.Tobias
* I already sent you an email. Kindly please check it.
* Thank You.
* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9170219)
* Hi,
* thanks! The output of that script would probably have been better, but I think
I might have found a possible cause: The table seems to be using `colspan`, and
if I remember correctly, the importer does not understand that.
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [azaru3l](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaru3l/)
* (@azaru3l)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9175052)
* Thanks for the reply Mr. Tobias. Yes I know the output could be better but I
am not really a good programmer cause I am still new to this coding worl. Anyway
I am gonna try remove colspan and gonna try import the table to tablepress. Thanks
again Mr. Tobias
* Thread Starter [azaru3l](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaru3l/)
* (@azaru3l)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9175185)
* Unfortunately Mr Tobias, eventhough after removing colspan I still encounter
with the error. What kind of data type that is allowed to be imported to tablepress
Mr.Tobias?
* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9176623)
* Hi,
* can you then maybe email me the actual table output HTML code (i.e. the resulting`
` HTML that your script now generates?
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [azaru3l](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaru3l/)
* (@azaru3l)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9178259)
* Good Dar Mr. Tobias. I already sent an email to you. Kindly check it. Thank you
so much for your help Mr. Tobias
* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9178295)
* Hi,
* thanks! I have received the new file and already ran some checks on it. From
what I can see, the HTML syntax is correct, expect for one small issue directly
after the header row (a `|
` that should `
`). However that is
not the problem.
* Instead, it seems that the Regular Expression that TablePress uses to extract
the HTML code for the table from the file (which contains more HTML code than
just the table) fails here. This might be caused by the size of the table, but
I’m not sure. I’m afraid that I’ll have to do some more testing here, so that
I can hopefully come up with a better Regular Expression. As I’m not an expert
with those, this might however take a bit :-/
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [azaru3l](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaru3l/)
* (@azaru3l)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9178802)
* Hello Mr.Tobias
* Thank you so much for your effort in helping me trying to resolve this problem.
I can only hope that you come up with the solution.
* Regards.
* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9179652)
* Hi,
* sure, no problem!
* Now, just out of interest: Do you (at the moment) just want to import this table
into TablePress once?
(Because I could then try to convert it to a CSV file,
which you can import. That way, you would not have to wait until I can fix the
actual cause in the HTML import.) Or do you, at this time, want to import several
tables from a HTML file?
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [azaru3l](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaru3l/)
* (@azaru3l)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9181752)
* Hi Mr.Tobias
Unfortunately I need to import several table not just only once
but whenever the user fill in the data through a form and updated the table.
I have also consider the option to convert the table into csv then only import
it through using tablepress but given the circumstances, it is not an ideal solution
for me now. Currently I am studying DataTables library in hoping I can find an
alternative for my usage.
* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9183436)
* Hi,
* ok, I see. I will then intensify my research on fixing the HTML import.
Unfortunately
though, I can’t make promises yet, and I can’t give an estimate on when this
will work, as I’m very busy at the moment 🙁 Sorry for not having better news
yet.
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [azaru3l](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaru3l/)
* (@azaru3l)
* [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-data-import/#post-9185572)
* Hello Mr. Tobias
I hope you have a good day. Take your time Mr.Tobias. Just
knowing that you put so much effort in trying to help me already I can’t thank
you enough. I understand that you doing this for free. Once again, thank you
so much for this amazing plugin as this has help people like me who have limited
knowledge on programming to create a beautiful table in our wordpress page.
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