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| − | 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! | + | 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! |
==Spreadsheet to wiki table format== | ==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]. | + | 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. Just copy the wikitext into the editor and you have your table. |
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| + | Furthermore software products like OpenOffice gives you the possibility to save text and also tables as "wikitext". | ||
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| + | ==Pipe syntax tutorial== | ||
Revision as of 09:57, 12 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!
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. Just copy the wikitext into the editor and you have your table.
Furthermore software products like OpenOffice gives you the possibility to save text and also tables as "wikitext".
Pipe syntax tutorial
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 |
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