HelpOnTables

Table Markup

To create a table, you start and end a line using the table marker "||". Between those start and end markers, you can create any number of cells by separating them with "||". To get a centered cell that spans several columns, you start that cell with more than one cell marker. Adjacent lines of the same indent level containing table markup are combined into one table.

For more information on the possible markup, see HelpOnEditing.

Table Attributes

Apart from the option to repeat cell markers to get columns spanning several other columns, you can directly set many HTML table attributes. Any attributes have to be placed between angle brackets <...> directly after the cell marker.

The wiki-like markup has the following options:

<-2>: colspan
<|2>: rowspan
<style="..."> will put that style info into cell (td) html
<rowstyle="..."> will put that style info into row (tr) html
<tablestyle="..."> will put that style info into cell (table) html
<class="..."> will put that CSS class into cell (td) html
<id="..."> will put that CSS id into cell (td) html

The style stuff is all you need for styling your tables. Just use CSS formatted style there and it will be inlined in the generated HTML tag. Alternatively, extend moin's CSS by your own definitions and refer to them using class or id.

We still support the old table markup, but generate the effect by appending additional values to the style parameter:

<50%>: cell width (will append width: 50%; to style)
<width="50%">: does the same
<tablewidth="100%">: set table width to 100% (only valid in first table row)
<(>: left aligned (will append text-align: left; to style)
<:>: centered (will append text-align: center; to style)
<)>: right aligned (will append text-align: right; to style)
<^>: aligned to top (will append vertical-align: top; to style)
<v>: aligned to bottom (will append vertical-align: bottom; to style)
<#XXXXXX>: background color (will append background-color: #XXXXXX; to style)
<bgcolor="#XXXXXX"> does the same
<rowbgcolor="#XXXXXX"> set row background color (only valid in first cell)
<tablebgcolor="#XXXXXX"> set table background color

If you use several conflicting options like <(:)>, the last option wins. There is no explicit option for vertical centering (middle), since that is always the default.

Example

 NEW STYLE: General table layout and HTML like options::
 ||||||<tablestyle="width: 80%">'''Heading'''||
 ||cell 1||cell2||cell 3||
 ||<rowspan=2> spanning rows||||<style="background-color: #E0E0FF;"> spanning 2 columns||
 ||<rowstyle="background-color: #FFFFE0;">cell2||cell 3||
 Cell width::
 || narrow ||<style="width: 99%; text-align: center;"> wide ||
 Spanning rows and columns::
 ||<|2> 2 rows || row 1 ||
 || row 2 ||
 ||<-2> row 3 over 2 columns ||
 Alignment::
 ||<style="text-align: left"> left ||<|3 style="vertical-align: top;"> top ||<|3 style="vertical-align: bottom;"> bottom ||
 ||<style="text-align: center;"> centered ||
 ||<style="text-align: right;"> right ||
 Colors::
 ||<style="background-color: red;"> red ||<style="background-color: green;"> green ||<style="background-color: blue;"> blue ||

 OLD STYLE: General table layout and HTML like options::
 ||||||<tablewidth="80%">'''Heading'''||
 ||cell 1||cell2||cell 3||
 ||<rowspan=2> spanning rows||||<bgcolor='#E0E0FF'> spanning 2 columns||
 ||<rowbgcolor="#FFFFE0">cell2||cell 3||
 Cell width::
 || narrow ||<:99%> wide ||
 Spanning rows and columns::
 ||<|2> 2 rows || row 1 ||
 || row 2 ||
 ||<-2> row 3 over 2 columns ||
 Alignment::
 ||<(> left ||<^|3> top ||<v|3> bottom ||
 ||<:> centered ||
 ||<)> right ||
 Colors::
 ||<#FF8080> red ||<#80FF80> green ||<#8080FF> blue ||

Display

NEW STYLE: General table layout and HTML like options

Heading
cell 1	cell2	cell 3
spanning rows	spanning 2 columns
	cell2	cell 3

Cell width

narrow

wide

Spanning rows and columns

2 rows	row 1
	row 2
row 3 over 2 columns

Alignment

left	top	bottom
centered
right

Colors

red

green

blue

OLD STYLE: General table layout and HTML like options

Heading
cell 1	cell2	cell 3
spanning rows	spanning 2 columns
	cell2	cell 3