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You can add a table using HTML rather than wiki markup, as described at HTML element#Tables. However, HTML tables are discouraged because wikitables are easier to customize and maintain, as described at manual of style on tables. Also, note that the <thead>, <tbody>, <tfoot>, <colgroup>, and <col> elements are not supported in wikitext.
the basic code for a table row; code for color, alignment, and sorting mode ... <code>style="border-top: ... can convert HTML tables to 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.
This tutorial provides a guide to making new tables and editing existing ones. For guidelines on when and how to use tables, see the Manual of Style. The easiest way to insert a new table is to use the editing toolbar that appears when you edit a page (see image above).
Currently, there does not seem to be a way to copy those tables to a wiki and keep styling such as colors (background or text color). It is possible to convert PDF tables to Excel and keep the colors. Or to HTML tables and keep the colors. But there does not seem to be a way to copy any of those colored tables (PDF, Excel, HTML, etc.) to a wiki.
border-collapse:collapse This style will eliminate 3-d style borders created by the border attribute and collapse them in 1px wide borders. This property will override cellspacing ! To define similar whitespace, use the border-spacing property (although it is not possible to have both border-spacing and border-collapse for the same table).
For the most basic table, you can use the edit toolbar's table icon to generate some starter wikicode (Figure 14-14). Then you can expand it and add your information. Figure 14-14. On the edit toolbar, if you click the "table" icon, in editing mode, the software generates a basic table for you.
When used in conjunction with the table element, it specifies the amount of space between the border of a table cell and its contents. [1] [2] Cellpadding is an attribute of an individual cell in a table, so each cell in a table can be assigned its own cellpadding value, [3] if not assigned however, the default value for cellpadding is 1.