How do I make an HTML table inline

Making the paragraph display: inline; works for me. But, if you have multiple paragraphs, you will have to add a <br /> after each of them.

You could use the following css:

display:inline-table

onnly IE7 and below don't support this property. Probably wrapping the table in a span with zoom:1 applied to it could help IE7.

I'm using Chrome browser on Linux and I am able to get this to work by adding display:inline-table to both the paragraph (p) and table tags:

<p style="display:inline-table;">
  Before
  <table style="display:inline-table;"><tr><td>a</td><td>b</td></tr> <tr><td>c</td><td>d</td></tr></table>
  After
</p>

Just checked Firefox on Linux and it seems to work there too.

FYI: Removing either of the two display:inline-table styles gave undesirable formatting.