Help:Table
Tables can be used to layout contents horizontally and vertically. Tables can be made sortable, columns may be aligned, cells may be combined. See the following examples.
- For basic usage see Help:Editing #Tables
Some Examples
Table layout without border lines
Layout contents vertically and horizontally (without making obvious that you use tables for this). Using the exclamation mark (!) instead of the pipe symbol (|) center-aligns the cell text and sets it to bold face.
{|
! A
! B
|-
| 1
| 2
|-
| x
| xx
|}
| A | B |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |
| x | xx |
Standard wiki table layout
A table with obvious heading style and decent lines to optically separate cells. You get this by adding class="wikitable" to the first line of the table.
{| class="wikitable"
! A
! B
|-
| 1
| 2
|-
| x
| xx
|}
| A | B |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |
| x | xx |
Heading style for left and top cells
Sometimes it's helpful to place the legend on the left side.
{| class="wikitable"
! ??
! 1
! 2
|-
! A
| a1
| a2
|-
! B
| b1
| b2
|}
| ?? | 1 | 2 |
|---|---|---|
| A | a1 | a2 |
| B | b1 | b2 |
Sortable tables
Tables can be sorted automatically by adding the sortable class. If you wish to disable sorting for a column (typically description or comments) add class="unsortable" to the column heading.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Steps per Octave !! Step Size
! class="unsortable" | comments
|-
| 15 || 80 || This is nice
|-
| 24 || 50 || Peppermint
|-
| 12 || 100 || Try this for free
|-
| 6 || 200 ||Debussy loves it.
|}
| Steps per Octave | Step Size | comments |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 80 | This is nice |
| 24 | 50 | Peppermint |
| 12 | 100 | Try this for free |
| 6 | 200 | Debussy loves it. |
Special needs
Table title or description
As to add a description or title to your table, use the pipe-plus combination |+ at the beginning of the line. For better readability you may add an optional row separator (|-) in the following line.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ title or description
|-
! A
! B
|-
| 1
| 2
|-
| x
| xx
|}
| A | B |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |
| x | xx |
Adjusting text alignment
If you want to override the default text alignment for all cells, add the class "center-all" to the class="wikitable" statement at beginning of the table.
for whole columns
Add a the appropriate class(es) to the class="wikitable" statement at beginning of the table. Their name starts with the alignment specification (left, center, or right) and a number (1 to 9) after a minus sign (-).
If you want to override the default text (left) alignment to make the first column right-aligned and second column center-aligned, add the class "right-1" and "center-2" to the class="wikitable" statement at beginning of the table.
todo: example
for single cells
The table cells are left aligned by default, the heading cells are center aligned. You may change this via inline CSS style definitions:
| what you want for the cell | what you do to get it |
|---|---|
| left aligned text | nothing to do |
| centered text | place style="text-align:center;" | after the opening pipe
|
| right aligned | place style="text-align:center;" | after the opening pipe
|
| headline style | exclamation mark instead of the pipe symbol starts the cell |
Combining table cells
todo: internal description of colspans and rowspans
External helper tools
If you have to construct really complex tables with colspans and rowspans, you may use this online table generator:
Generate tables in MediaWiki format - TablesGenerator.com
For example, this wiki markup
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" | 1
! 2
! 3
|-
| rowspan="2" | A
| colspan="3" | B
| C
|-
| rowspan="2" colspan="2" | D
| colspan="2" | E
|-
| F
| G
| H
|}
will be rendered into this table:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | ||
| D | E | |||
| F | G | H | ||