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The purpose is of this template is for generating simple tables in locations where standard table markup is either not possible, without significant use of the {{!}} magic word (e.g., with a {{}} template), or cumbersome (due to the repetitive use of specification of the same style statement in each row).
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A table is an arrangement of columns and rows that organizes and positions data or images. Tables can be created on Wikipedia pages using special wikitext syntax, and many different styles and tricks can be used to customise them.
Also, if the table has cell spacing (and thus border-collapse=separate), meaning that cells have separate borders with a gap in between, that gap will still be visible. A cruder way to align columns of numbers is to use a figure space   or  , which is intended to be the width of a numeral, though is font-dependent in practice:
Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status margin-left margin-left To set a margin on the table's lefthand side. Default 0 String optional width width To set the table's overall width. Default auto String optional style style For CSS styles amending the table's overall appearance. String optional noheaders noheaders Set (as e.g. noheaders=on) to suppress the ...
However, the table margins, border and font-size must be precisely set to match a typical image display. The Image-spec parameter "thumb|" (although auto-thumbnailing to user-preference width) forces a wide left-margin that squeezes the nearby text, so the parameter "center|" can be added to suppress the left-margin padding.
Jonesey95, you _should_ be able to add |class=nowrap or |style=white-space:nowrap to the {}, but that will nowrap the entire thing. if you just want to nowrap the list items, |item_style=white-space:nowrap should work. it would be good to have |item_class=nowrap , but I don't think that is supported.
Template parameters [Edit template data]. This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status; Template name: 1: Name of the template. Line