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| − | The formatting of tables is unfortunately not easy in MediaWiki. | + | 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 [[Help:tables|here]]. |
| + | ==Spreadsheet to wiki table format== | ||
| + | To convert from spreadsheets such as Gnumeric, MS Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc, go [http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~sdouglas/table.cgi 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: | Here you can see an example of wiki-syntax for a simple table and the resulting outcome below it: | ||
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| − | + | For more detailed help about tables see [[Help:tables|tables]]. | |
Latest revision as of 07:32, 18 December 2008
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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
