Help:Lists and tables

Latest revision as of 08:32, 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
 |}
 

For more detailed help about tables see tables.