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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.
Open the HTML file in a text editor and copy the HTML source code to the clipboard. Paste the HTML source into the large text box labeled "HTML markup:" on the html to wiki page. Click the blue Convert button at the bottom of the page. Select the text in the "Wiki markup:" text box and copy it to the clipboard. Paste the text to a Wikipedia ...
The CSV to Wikipedia converter allows you to convert tables in CSV format into the MediaWiki syntax for tables (or to HTML, if you prefer). This way you can import tables directly from spreadsheet applications like Excel or from databases. For more information, see de:Benutzer:Duesentrieb/csv2wp (en). (by de:Duesentrieb).
The easiest way to insert a new table is to use the editing toolbar that appears when you edit a page (see image above). Clicking the button will open a dialog where you define what you want in your new table. Once you've chosen the number of rows and columns, the wiki markup text for the table is inserted into the article.
MultiMarkdown is a lightweight markup language created by Fletcher T. Penney as an extension of the Markdown format. It supports additional features not available in plain Markdown syntax. [5] There is also a text editor with the same name that supports multiple export formats. [6]
HTML equivalent: <br> or <br /> can be used to break line layout. Templates for line breaks: {} can add multiple line breaks. {} and {} adds a break with styling, to clear floating elements. Often used to prevent text from flowing next to unrelated tables or images. Unbulleted list:
Pandoc is a free-software document converter, widely used as a writing tool (especially by scholars) [2] and as a basis for publishing workflows. [3] It was created by John MacFarlane , a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley .
For years in HTML, a table has always forced an implicit line-wrap (or line-break). So, to keep a table within a line, the workaround is to put the whole line into a table, then embed a table within a table, using the outer table to force the whole line to stay together. Consider the following examples: Wikicode (showing table forces line-break)