Help:Tables - Revision history

Ianh: Describe wikitable templates

2009-11-23T17:46:30Z

Describe wikitable templates

Ianh: Wikitable is now defined

2009-05-23T23:16:55Z

Wikitable is now defined

Ianh: Links

2009-05-16T21:12:46Z

Links

Ianh: +HelpEditing

2009-05-16T12:26:04Z

+HelpEditing

Ianh: Help with tables

2009-05-15T21:21:22Z

Help with tables

New page

While it is possible to create table via raw HTML, the wiki allows a simpler style.

Tables start with a curly bracket and a vertical bar character (a pipe) "{|" and end with a pipe and curly bracket "|}".

To start a new table row, type a vertical bar and a hyphen on its own line: "|-".

Each cell in a row is on a new line which starts with just a vertical bar character.

{|
|-
| This input  
|
<nowiki>{|</nowiki>
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|AAAA</nowiki>
<nowiki>|BBBB</nowiki>
<nowiki>|CCCC</nowiki>
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|DDDD</nowiki>
<nowiki>|EEEE</nowiki>
<nowiki>|FFFF</nowiki>
<nowiki>|}</nowiki>

|   produces  
|
{|
|-
|AAAA
|BBBB
|CCCC
|-
|DDDD
|EEEE
|FFFF
|}
|}

There are lots of other options, but the simplest is to add borders.

{|
|-
| This input  
|
<nowiki>{| border="1"</nowiki>
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|AAAA</nowiki>
<nowiki>|BBBB</nowiki>
<nowiki>|CCCC</nowiki>
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|DDDD</nowiki>
<nowiki>|EEEE</nowiki>
<nowiki>|FFFF</nowiki>
<nowiki>|}</nowiki>

|   produces  
|
{| border="1"
|-
|AAAA
|BBBB
|CCCC
|-
|DDDD
|EEEE
|FFFF
|}
|}

Change the leading vertical bar character to an exclamation mark to change a cell into a heading.


{|
|-
| This input  
|

<nowiki>{|</nowiki>
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>!A</nowiki>
<nowiki>!B</nowiki>
<nowiki>!C</nowiki>
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|DDDD</nowiki>
<nowiki>|EEEE</nowiki>
<nowiki>|FFFF</nowiki>
<nowiki>|}</nowiki>

|   produces  
|
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!A
!B
!C
|-
|DDDD
|EEEE
|FFFF
|}
|}

==More==

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables

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 |FFFF
 |}
 |}

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 Change the leading vertical bar character to an exclamation mark to change a cell into a heading.
-<!--The pre-defined "wikitable" style looks a lot better.-->
+The pre-defined "wikitable" style makes the borders look a lot better.
 {|
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 | This input &nbsp;
+|
-<!-- <nowiki>{| class="wikitable"</nowiki> -->
+ <nowiki>{| class="wikitable"</nowiki>
   <nowiki>|-</nowiki>
   <nowiki>!A</nowiki>

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 ==More==
-* {{HelpEditing}}
+{{HelpEditing}}
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables