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The purpose is of this template is for generating simple tables in locations where standard table markup is either not possible, without significant use of the {{!}} magic word (e.g., with a {{}} template), or cumbersome (due to the repetitive use of specification of the same style statement in each row).
If the first text-word is too long, no text will fit to complete the left-hand side, so beware creating a "ragged left margin" when not enough space remains for text to fit alongside floating-tables. If multiple single image-tables are stacked, they will float to align across the page, depending on page-width.
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:
{{word joiner}} prevents wraps for both two adjacent characters. {} prevents wraps unless the space is too narrow to display the text on one line. {{inline block}} does the same and allows further style customization, but does not automatically add the "avoidwrap" CSS class. {} produces multiple non-breaking spaces (or a single one).
Cell borders can be hidden by adding border: none; background: none; to the style attributes of either the table or the cell, [note 5] though this may not work in older browsers. Another use case for this is for implementing aligned multi-column tables:
{{word joiner}} prevents wraps for both two adjacent characters. {} prevents wraps unless the space is too narrow to display the text on one line. {{inline block}} does the same and allows further style customization, but does not automatically add the "avoidwrap" CSS class. {} produces multiple non-breaking spaces (or a single one).
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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 ...