User:Rogerhc/Tables 2 col

Do not use a table unless you need to. Tables complicate editing. For some content however tables help readability enough to warrant this extra trouble. Tables done in wiki markup are a little easier to edit than HTML tables, which also work. This page shows how to do table in wiki markup, from simple to complicated.

Simple table edit

Plain edit

The following table lacks borders and good spacing but shows the simplest wiki markup table structure

Orange	Apple
Bread	Pie
Butter	Ice cream

{|
|Orange
|Apple
|-
|Bread
|Pie
|-
|Butter
|Ice cream 
|}

Alternative edit

For more table-ish looking wiki markup cells can be listed on one line separated by ||. This does not scale well for longer cell content such as paragraphs. It works well for short bits of content however, such as our example table.

Extra spaces within cells in the wiki markup can be added, as I have done in the wiki markup below, to make the wiki markup itself look better but they do not effect the actual table rendering.

HTML attributes can be added to this table following the examples in other tables on this page but have been left out of the following example for simplicity.

Orange	Apple	more
Bread	Pie	more
Butter	Ice cream	and more

{|
|  Orange    ||   Apple   ||   more
|-
|   Bread    ||   Pie     ||   more
|-
|   Butter   || Ice cream ||  and more
|}

With HTML attributes edit

You can add HTML attributes to make your table look better

border="1" edit

Orange	Apple
Bread	Pie
Butter	Ice cream

{| border="1"
|Orange
|Apple
|-
|Bread
|Pie
|-
|Butter
|Ice cream 
|}

align="right" border="1" edit

You can put attributes on individual cells. Numbers for example may look better aligned right

Orange	Apple	12,333.00
Bread	Pie	500.00
Butter	Ice cream	1.00

{| border="1"
|Orange
|Apple
|align="right"|12,333.00
|-
|Bread
|Pie
|align="right"|500.00
|-
|Butter
|Ice cream
|align="right"|1.00
|}

cellspacing="0" border="1" edit

Orange	Apple
Bread	Pie
Butter	Ice cream

{| cellspacing="0" border="1"
|Orange
|Apple
|-
|Bread
|Pie
|-
|Butter
|Ice cream 
|}

cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0" border="1" edit

Orange	Apple
Bread	Pie
Butter	Ice cream

{| cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0" border="1"
|Orange
|Apple
|-
|Bread
|Pie
|-
|Butter
|Ice cream 
|}

With HTML attributes and CSS styles edit

CSS style attributes can be added with or without other HTML attributes

style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0" border="1" edit

Orange	Apple
Bread	Pie
Butter	Ice cream

{| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0" border="1"
|Orange
|Apple
|-
|Bread
|Pie
|-
|Butter
|Ice cream 
|}

Table with headings edit

Headings can be added by using ! instead of |. Headings usually show up bold and centered by default.

Top headings edit

Yummy	Yummier
Orange	Apple
Bread	Pie
Butter	Ice cream

{| border="1" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0"
!Yummy
!Yummier
|-
|Orange
|Apple
|-
|Bread
|Pie
|-
|Butter
|Ice cream 
|}

Side headings edit

Default edit

Fruit	Orange	Apple
Dish	Bread	Pie
Complement	Butter	Ice cream

{| border="1" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0"
!Fruit
|Orange
|Apple
|-
!Dish
|Bread
|Pie
|-
!Complement
|Butter
|Ice cream 
|}

Right justified edit

Right justified side headings can be done as follows

Fruit	Orange	Apple
Dish	Bread	Pie
Complement	Butter	Ice cream

{| border="1" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0"
!align="right" |Fruit
|Orange
|Apple
|-
!align="right" |Dish
|Bread
|Pie
|-
!align="right" |Complement
|Butter
|Ice cream 
|}