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Data cells should normally have plain unbolded text, and a lighter background. In the table below the data cell wikitext is on the same line as the row header wikitext. This causes the data cell backgrounds to be the same shade of gray as the column and row headers. It also makes the data cell text bold. See how to fix this after the table.
Explicit table captions (or titles) are recommended for data tables as a best practice; the Wikipedia Manual of Style considers them a high priority for accessibility reasons (screen readers), as a caption is explicitly associated with the table, unlike a normal wikitext heading or introductory sentence. All data tables on Wikipedia require ...
Template:Table alignment (see previous section) will not work on columns of row headers. There are some other limitations listed at Template:Table alignment. In these cases you can try the following method for the first column only. This can be done in the wikitext source editor.
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.
inner or innercollapse: Uses the mw-collapsible innercollapse classes to make the table collapsible, but only collapse if the table is within a larger table with the outercollapse class. outer or outercollapse: Uses the outercollapse class to collapse any smaller tables within the table it that use the innercollapse class. Can be combined with ...
For example, nested tables (tables inside tables) should be separated into distinct tables when possible. Here is a more advanced example, showing some more options available for making up tables. Users can play with these settings in their own table to see what effect they have.
See Template:Date table sorting for more info. In the tables below, all columns sort correctly. The wikitext for the first entry in each table in the first row is shown in the table header. Note: None of the table columns use the data-sort-type= modifier. Using data-sort-type= can sometimes break sorting when used with the template.
A simple trick allows to protect the "|" in template parameter values while still arriving as real "|" delimiter in the Wiki table, see the magic word {{!}}. Note that "!" (exclamation mark) has no problems with templates, it's the other delimiter used in Wiki tables. Here's the code for plan B: {|