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That is how easy tables are created in wiki. You can use all HTML attributes in the wiki table aswell. | That is how easy tables are created in wiki. You can use all HTML attributes in the wiki table aswell. | ||
For more info on tables, have a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table | For more info on tables, have a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table |
Revision as of 06:19, 26 March 2006
How to add or modify tables in wiki
Tables are fairly simple to create or modify in this wiki. You just start with: {| And you end with: |}
So the base code of a table is:
{|
|}
Ofcourse a table consists of horizontal rows and vertical columns.
Creating this is the easiest thing to do.
Rows are created by: |-
So the code for a table with one row is:
{|
|-
|}
A row itself contains no data, just datacells (the columns).
To create a column you type: | (just below the row |-).
Code for a table with one row and one column:
{|
|-
|
|}
This will not do much as there is no data in the column. So lets add some data to it:
{|
|-
| hey it works!
|}
Which will show as:
Hey it works! |
A table is not designed to hold just one piece of data, rather more, so lets add som more data.
{|
|-
| pleochroism
| weak to moderate
|}
All I did was add another | below the previous one and it will show as a new column in that row:
pleochoism | weak to moderate |
Now lets add another row for more information.
{|
|-
| pleochroism
| weak to moderate
|-
| cleavage
| distinct, basal
|}
Which will show as:
pleochoism | weak to moderate |
cleavage | distinct, basal |
This doesn't look like a table, so let us add some attributes to it, like a border. This is done in the opening of the main table.
{| border=1
|-
| pleochroism
| weak to moderate
|-
| cleavage
| distinct, basal
|}
pleochoism | weak to moderate |
cleavage | distinct, basal |
For the gemstone tables (templates/flashcards) the attributes are all ready defined. You simply put in {{table}} as the attribute and you need not worry about them:
{| {{table}}
|-
| pleochroism
| weak to moderate
|-
| cleavage
| distinct, basal
|}
pleochoism | weak to moderate |
cleavage | distinct, basal |
Ofcourse we want to have a header for our table. This is done with ! just above the start of the first row.
{| {{table}}
! gem
! stone
|-
| pleochroism
| weak to moderate
|-
| cleavage
| distinct, basal
|}
gem | stone |
---|---|
pleochoism | weak to moderate |
cleavage | distinct, basal |
That doesn't look good, so lets merge the two headers in one:
{| {{table}}
! colspan=2 | gemstone
|-
| pleochroism
| weak to moderate
|-
| cleavage
| distinct, basal
|}
gemstone | |
---|---|
pleochoism | weak to moderate |
cleavage | distinct, basal |
As you can see, you can provide extra attributes (like colspan=2, short for column span) if you seperate the attributes and the data by an | .
That is how easy tables are created in wiki. You can use all HTML attributes in the wiki table aswell. For more info on tables, have a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table