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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; fixed texts such as units; special formats for sorting; In such a case, it can be useful to create a template that produces the syntax for a table row, with the data as parameters. This can have many advantages: easily changing the order of columns, or removing a column
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.
The two most commonly used classes are "wikitable" and "wikitable sortable"; the latter allows the reader to sort the table by clicking on the header cell of any column. |+ caption Required for accessibility purposes on data tables, and placed only between the table start and the first table row. ! header cell Optional.
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.
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:
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 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)