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The wiki software makes it possible to create '''tables''', although creating nice ones requires a bit of skill from the user. Often the easiest way to create a new table is to find a similar one e.g on wikipedia, copy it and start adapting it to your needs. To do that succesfully only a bit of basic knowledge is required.

=Purpose=

To present information in an ordered, attractive and legible format

=Pipe symbols=

Although wiki allows the use of tags like <nowiki> <table> <tr> <td> </nowiki> the use of these to create tables is discouraged by most wiki's. Instead the use of pipe | symbols is recommended. 

*A table is bracketed by putting the symbols <nowiki> {| and |} in the first column of the edit page</nowiki> (cf. [[tips\typing]])
*A new line is given by |- in the first column of the edit page
*To start a new table column,  use a pipe in the first column or two of them on the rest of the line

=Table layout=

The following code
<pre>
{|
|-
|col1 ||col2||col3
|-
|something||something else||and else
|}
</pre>

will be rendered as:

{|
|-
|col1 ||col2||col3
|-
|something||something else||and else
|}

Obviously, a lot could be improved in the layout of this table

We could add a header by using bangs (!) instead of pipes

<pre>
{|
!header1!!header2!!header3
|-
|col1 ||col2||col3
|-
|something||something else||and else
|}
</pre>

is rendered as:

{|
!header1!!header2!!header3
|-
|col1 ||col2||col3
|-
|something||something else||and else
|}

If you want to get fancy you need to add more odds and sods, e.g.

<pre>
{|style="float:right; margin-left:0.5em; margin-bottom:0.5em; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; text-align:center;" cellpadding="3" rules="all"
!bgcolor="#FFFFE0" |header1!!bgcolor="#BBFFE0" |header2!!bgcolor="#99FFE0" |header3
|-
|col1 ||col2||col3
|-
|something||something else||and else
|}
</pre>


{|style="float:right; margin-left:0.5em; margin-bottom:0.5em; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; text-align:center;" cellpadding="3" rules="all"
!bgcolor="#FFFFE0" |header1!!bgcolor="#BBFFE0" |header2!!bgcolor="#99FFE0" |header3
|-
|col1 ||col2||col3
|-
|something||something else||and else
|}


As you might guess the "foat:right puts the table on the right hand side and makes text wrap around it. The colors are defined by strings like "#FFFFE0"  these are hexadecimal indications for red green and blue. So FFFFFF is white 000000 is black, FF0000 is pure red, 00FF00 is pure green and 0000FF is pure blue.

=Combining [[tips\templates|templates]] and tables=

We can put tables into templates and templates into tables and things will get complicated pretty rapidly. It certainly has an advantage to put all the layout information of a table in a template and then keep using the same table by using the template, rather composing a new table each time it is needed. A good example of prefabricated templated tables are the templates '(', '-' and ')'. They can be used to rapidly put separate entries (in a list e.g.) into a number of columns side by side:

<pre>
{{(}}
*John
*Pete
*Charles
{{-}}
*Mike
*Paul
*Ahmed
{{-}}
*Nomsa
*Mbulelo
*Theodore
{{)}}
</pre>

renders

{{(}}
*John
*Pete
*Charles
{{-}}
*Mike
*Paul
*Ahmed
{{-}}
*Nomsa
*Mbulelo
*Theodore
{{)}}

=More?=

See [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tables tables on meta]


[[category:Tips]]

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