Help:Lists and tables

The formatting of tables is unfortunately not easy in MediaWiki. Tables are build up with a pipe syntax defining the single rows and cells. Before you start to learn that, please consider the possibility to transform spreadsheet formats to wiki-syntax! You can find more help for tables here.

Spreadsheet to wiki table format

To convert from spreadsheets such as Gnumeric, MS Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc, go here. Here you find a perfect converter that gives you wiki syntax back. Just copy the wikitext into the editor and you have your table. You can save a lot of time compared to start formatting your table directly in the editor and this method is suitable to cover a wide range of reqirements. For more special cases, e.g. if you need to conect cells, you need at least some practice with the pipe syntax.

Pipe syntax tutorial

To try out the pipe syntax for tables you can use the sandbox.

Here you can see an example of wiki-syntax for a simple table and the resulting outcome below it:

 {| class="wikitable"
 |-
 ! header 1
 ! header 2
 ! header 3
 |-
 | row 1, cell 1
 | row 1, cell 2
 | row 1, cell 3
 |-
 | row 2, cell 1
 | row 2, cell 2
 | row 2, cell 3
 |}
 

header 1	header 2	header 3
row 1, cell 1	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3

For more detailed help about tables see tables.