Sjabloon:Table

Template documentation

Usage

To specify a straightforward table without needing to input all the wikicode required (in particular the |- row divisions).

{{Table
|type  =        // default: style="background:transparent;"
|title =     
|hdrs  =        // first header !! second header !! ... 
|row1  =        // first cell's contents {{!!}} second cell's contents {{!!}} ... 
...
|row100 =        // last possible row
}}

All parameters optional.

Examples

Example One

{{Table
|hdrs=Timeline
|row1=2001 Started research
|row2=2002 Published findings}}

Timeline
2001 Started research
2002 Published findings

Example Two

{{Table
|type=class="wikitable sortable"
|title=Example Table Two
|hdrs=Year!!Comments
|row1=2001{{!!}}Started research
|row2=2002{{!!}}Published findings}}

Example Table Two

Year	Comments
2001	Started research
2002	Published findings

Misuse of this template

Inexperienced editors may confuse this template with the manual way of making tables, and mix the two, or otherwise make odd mistakes. For example, this text (that accomplishes nothing) may appear within a page's wikimarkup: {{table}}. To prevent this from occurring, a message is displayed to the user instructing them about misuse. Also, the page is added to the Articles using the table template incorrectly category. After the initial cleanup (all instances of {{table}} were removed), it seems unlikely now that someone would use this template wrong because of the warning message. But keep an eye on that category, just in case!

External links

• Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter; a fine tool for copying Excel data to wiki
• Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code