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If you've spent a lot of time at Baseball-Reference, you've probably seen the "SHARE" command in red text above a table of stats... but maybe you don't know what that does, or have forgotten how to use it. No worries -- here's a quick rundown of the features you can access by clicking "SHARE":

• Customize rows & columns - Sharing lets you delete certain rows/columns that you don't want to include in your table. Just click the round 'x' button to delete a specific row/column, or the arrow 'x' to get rid of everything to the right (columns) or directly below (rows) the row/column in question.
• Export as an HTML table - Clicking 'html
  ' gives you code to embed the table onto your site (you can even choose to keep S-R's inline style formatting).
• Get a link - Choosing Link URL creates an SR tiny URL specifically for the table you created, which can easily be sent to others via twitter or directly linked at your blog.
• Export as bbcode - This option lets you copy-and-paste the table into most bulletin board formats.
• Export into a javascript widget - This will give you code to embed the static table on your site via a js widget. (Note: The 'Embed' option next to 'SHARE' allows you to do this as well, but as a constantly-updated table instead of a static one.)
• Export as an iframe - For those who prefer to embed the table within an inline frame.
• Export into preformatted text or CSV
• Convert table to Wiki formatting - This will turn the table into a format suitable for sites like Wikipedia.

Happy sharing!

This entry was posted on Monday, October 22nd, 2012 at 4:47 pm and is filed under Announcement, Baseball-Reference.com, HowTo. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.