Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
By default, text is aligned to the left of data cells. By default, text is aligned to the center of header cells. All of the above is true in both desktop and mobile view.
MediaWiki’s wikitable class (class="wikitable") is designed for straightforward table formatting and enforces certain global styles that make removing borders between adjacent cells challenging even if custom CSS styles attempt to eliminate these borders. Specifically, the class includes:
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.
For table markup, it can be applied to whole tables, table captions, table rows, and individual cells. CSS specificity in relation to content should be considered since applying it to a row could affect all that row's cells and applying it to a table could affect all the table's cells and caption, where styles closer to the content can override ...
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).
In general, styles for tables and other block-level elements should be set using CSS classes, not with inline style attributes. This is because the site-wide CSS is more carefully tested to ensure compatibility with a wide range of browsers; it also creates a greater degree of professionalism by ensuring a consistent appearance between articles.
The following assumes the syntax is a whole table row in one source line starting with a pipe and with double pipe between cells. It does not work with partially compressed table wikitext either (such as for tables with row headers). A table with any non-compressed wikitext can be completely compressed by pasting the table into Excel2Wiki. Do ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us