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It’s better not to use annotation to give a diagram a title. Put the diagram inside a table and use the table caption to do it. That way it can easily be changed. Do not be tempted to use the WordArt button next to the text button. WordArt is the feature most responsible for those terrible looking amateur posters, and ads that can be seen in ...
|+ Table caption adds the caption "Table caption" to the top of the table. A caption is optional, but recommended according to accessibility guidelines. |-adds a new row, which should be followed by the same number of cells found in other rows. Note, rowspan="2" and colspan="2" can be used on cells to span multiple rows and columns.
Many article editors dislike table captions when the table is directly below, or not far away from, a similar article heading. But screen reader users still need a table caption to quickly browse from table to table. In this case use the popular {} template: Template:Screen reader-only. Add the template to the table caption, and then only ...
This is because the table captions will not be correctly placed in mobile portrait view, or other narrow mobile screens, when the tables wrap. This is especially noticeable if the caption is longer. In that case when one table drops below the other, then the caption will be severely wrapped above only the first column of the table.
caption Required for accessibility purposes on data tables, and placed only between the table start and the first table row. ! header cell Optional. Each header cell starts with a new line and a single exclamation mark (!), or several header cells can be placed consecutively on the same line, separated by double exclamation marks (!!). |-new row
Captions should be concise; if the table needs an extended introduction, provide one in normal article prose, then provide a simpler caption. However, table captions consisting of a single word like "Actor", "Film" or "Television" – as in a previous revision of Tobin Bell's filmography – are inadequate, as they are not descriptive enough.
Copy the table right off the page (not the wikitext) and paste it into Excel2Wiki. Remove the table caption text for now. Check the following boxes: format first row as header; format first column as header; Check or uncheck "sortable" depending on your needs. Then click "Convert". Copy the wikitext results back to the wiki.
The caption tag is used inside the HTML element "table". This can also be done indirectly using the code "|+" as part of the wikicode for a table. Captions are placed above the table by default. Captions can also be placed below, to the left, or to the right of the table, based on the value of the "align" parameter.