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Normally, copying and pasting columns or rows removes the inline CSS styling such as cell colors. There is a way to break up a table (a too-wide table for example) into more tables without losing all the background colors, and other inline styling. Copy the table to 2 sandboxes (or one sandbox, and in the article itself).
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.
Note: Wikipedia:HTML 5#Table attributes. CSS to replace obsolete attributes for borders, padding, spacing, etc. Add a border around a table using the CSS property border: thickness style color;, for example border:3px dashed red. This example uses a solid (non-dashed) gray border that is one pixel wide:
overflow-x: auto, to make the content scroll in the horizontal direction if its width surpasses the available space left over by the first table; and white-space: nowrap , to prevent content in cells from wrapping over, and thus keep them aligned with the rows on the left (which assumes the row headers are also rendered on a single line).
Examples of horizontal and vertical scrollbars around a text box Examples of vertical scrollbar at right end of Wikipedia home page. A scrollbar is an interaction technique or widget in which continuous text, pictures, or any other content can be scrolled in a predetermined direction (up, down, left, or right) on a computer display, window, or viewport so that all of the content can be viewed ...
After putting the table in a sandbox use VE to copy just the code column as previously described at § Copy column from one table to another. Copy that list to a converter such as this one. Since it is a column list pick "new-line separated" from the first dropdown menu. And be sure to pick the correct direction in the second dropdown menu.
Shown here are examples of the two types of lists: unordered (bullet) and ordered (numbered). If you want to change the indentation level of part of an existing list, select the part of the list that you want to change. Then use the menu, or press the Tab key.
Scrolling lists should not be used in article space. This includes reference lists , tables and lists of article content, image galleries , and image captions . This page in a nutshell: A scrolling list can be inserted into project pages, and other Wikipedia pages to make some text visible while hiding other text from that same list