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!

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.

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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