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Tables redirects here; for information about database table structure, seeManual:Database layout.

Tables may be created in wiki pages.As a general rule, it is best to avoid using a table unless you need one.Table markup often complicates page editing.^[1]

• The above marks muststart on a new line except the double|| and!! for optionally adding consecutive cells to a line. However, blank spaces at the beginning of a line are ignored.
• HTML attributes. Each mark, except table end, optionally accepts one or more HTML attributes. Attributes must be on the same line as the mark. Separate attributes from each other with a single space.
  • Cells and caption (| or||,! or!!, and|+) hold content. So separate any attributes from content with a single pipe (|). Cell content may follow on same line or on following lines.
  • Table and row marks ({| and|-) do not directly hold content. Donot add pipe (|) after their optional attributes. If you erroneously add a pipe after attributes for the table mark or row mark the parser will delete itand your final attribute if it was touching the erroneous pipe!
• Content may (a) follow its cell mark on the same line after any optional HTML attributes or (b) on lines below the cell mark. Content that uses wiki markup that itself needs to start on a new line, such as lists, headings, or nested tables, must be on its own new line.
  • Pipe character as content. To insert a pipe (|) character into a table, use the<nowiki>|</nowiki> escaping markup.

In wikitext editor, place the caret where you want to insert a table.Then, in the toolbar, pressAdvanced, then choose Table button.A dialog opens.

From the dialog, you can choose whether to enable a table header row, to stylize the table with border and to make the tablesortable.A preview example is displayed.You can also set row and column counts you need. Then, pressInsert button.

By default, the following code is generated:

{||+ Caption text|-! Header text !! Header text !! Header text|-| Example || Example || Example|-| Example || Example || Example|-| Example || Example || Example|}

The following table lacks borders and good spacing but shows the simplest wiki markup table structure.

{|| Orange| Apple|-| Bread| Pie|-| Butter| Ice cream|}

The cells in the same row can be listed on one line separated by|| (two pipe symbols).If the text in the cell should contain a line break, use‎<br/> instead.

{|| Orange || Apple || more|-| Bread || Pie || more|-| Butter || Ice<br/>cream || and<br/>more|}

Extra spaces within cells in the wiki markup, as in the wiki markup below, do not affect the actual table rendering.

{||  Orange || Apple || more|-|   Bread || Pie || more|-|   Butter || Ice cream || and more|}

You can have longer text or more complex wiki syntax inside table cells, too:

{||Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,consetetur sadipscing elitr,sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor inviduntut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat,sed diam voluptua.At vero eos et accusam et justo duo doloreset ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren,no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsumdolor sit amet.|* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet* consetetur sadipscing elitr* sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt|}

Table headers can be created by using "!" (exclamation mark) instead of "|" (pipe symbol).Headers usually show up bold and centered by default.

{|!style="text-align:left"| Item! Amount! Cost|-| Orange|10|7.00|-| Bread|4|3.00|-| Butter|1|5.00|-! Total||15.00|}

Atable caption can be added to the top of any table as follows.

{||+Food complements|-| Orange| Apple|-| Bread| Pie|-| Butter| Ice cream|}

Basic styling (light gray background, borders, padding and align left) can be achieved by adding.

{||+Food complements|-| Orange| Apple|-| Bread| Pie|-| Butter| Ice cream|}

You can use HTMLcolspan androwspan attributes on cells for advanced layout.

{|!colspan="6"| Shopping List|-|rowspan="2"| Bread & Butter| Pie| Buns| Danish|colspan="2"| Croissant|-| Cheese|colspan="2"| Ice cream| Butter| Yogurt|}

The use of the wrappingdiv.noresize will ensure your table is optimized for mobile and is extremely important for large tables e.g. tables with more than 4 columns or large columns.Failure to use this element will cause your content to overlap UI elements e.g. the Vector 2022 sidebar or to break mobile display.This will cause the table to have a horizontal scroll bar when the table is too big for the content.

You type:

<div>{|! colspan="6" |Shopping List|-| rowspan="2" |Areallyreallyreallyreallylongstringwillcauseyourtableto | Pie| Buns| Danish| colspan="2" |Croissantsmaycausetexttoincreasethesizeofyourcolumnsoitbreaksoutofthecontent area if you do not wrap the table with noresize.|-| Cheese| colspan="2" |Ice cream| Butter| Yogurt|}</div>

You get:

You can addHTML attributes to tables.For the authoritative source on HTML attributes, seethe W3C's HTML Specification page on tables.

Placing attributes after the table start tag ({|) applies attributes to the entire table.

{|| Orange| Apple|12,333.00|-| Bread| Pie|500.00|-| Butter| Ice cream|1.00|}

You can put attributes on individualcells.For example, numbers may look better aligned right.

{|| Orange| Apple| | 12,333.00|-| Bread| Pie| | 500.00|-| Butter| Ice cream| | 1.00|}

You can also usecell attributes when you are listing multiplecells on a single line.Note that thecells are separated by||, and within eachcell the attribute(s) and value are separated by|.

{|| Orange || Apple     || | 12,333.00|-| Bread || Pie       || | 500.00|-| Butter || Ice cream || | 1.00|}

You can put attributes on individualrows, too.

{|| Orange| Apple|| 12,333.00|-| Bread| Pie|| 500.00|-| Butter| Ice cream|| 1.00|}

Attributes can be added to the caption and headers as follows.

{||+|''Food complements''|-!style="color:green"| Fruits!style="color:red"| Fats|-| Orange| Butter|-| Pear| Pie|-| Apple| Ice cream|}

If "border-width:" has only one number, it is for all four border sides:

{|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 20px"|Hello|}

If "border-width:" has more than one number, the four numbers are fortop, right, bottom, left (REMEMBER clockwise order ↑→↓←):

{|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 10px 20px 100px 0"|Hello|}

When there are fewer than 4 values :

• three values i.e.top,right,bottom: then the default value forleft is the one ofright (second value). Width is then the same on left and right side.
• two values i.e.top,right: then the default value forbottom is the one oftop (first value), andleft by default is assigned the value ofright (second value). Width on top is then the same as on bottom; width on left is the same as on right.
• one value i.e.top: then the default value forright is the one oftop and it is the same forbottom andleft. The fourth width are the same and build a regular border. This is a writing shortcut.

Another method to define the widths of the four sides of a cell is to use"border-left", "border-right", "border-top" and "border-bottom":

{|style="border-left:solid 10px black;border-right:solid 20px black;border-top:solid 30px black;border-bottom:solid 40px black; margin:auto"|Hello|}

CSS style attributes can be added with or without other HTML attributes.

{| cellpadding="10"| Orange| Apple|-| Bread| Pie|-| Butter| Ice cream|}

It represents the internal margin between the contents and the border of the cell.

{|class=wikitable| | Example of|-| | Example of<br/><br/>Specify the padding on '''EACH CELL'''|-| | Example of|}

Column width can be added as follows.

You type:

{|| colspan="2" | This column width is 85% of the screen width|-|| '''This column is 30% counted from 85% of the screen width'''|| '''This column is 70% counted from 85% of the screen width'''|}

You get:

Table header cells do not explicitly specify which table data cells they apply to (those on their right on the same row, or those below them on the same column).When the table is rendered in a visual 2D environment, this is usually easy to infer.

However when tables are rendered on non-visual media, you can help the browser to determine which table header cell applies to the description of any selected cell (in order to repeat its content in some accessibility helper) using a scope="row" or scope="col" attribute on table header cells.In most cases with simple tables, you'll use scope="col" on all header cells of the first row, and scope="row" on the first cell of the following rows:

{||-! scope="col"| Item! scope="col"| Quantity! scope="col"| Price|-! scope="row"| Bread| 0.3 kg| $0.65|-! scope="row"| Butter| 0.125 kg| $1.25|-! scope="row" colspan="2"| Total| $1.90|}

Table alignment is achieved by using CSS.The table alignment is controlled by margins.A fixed margin on one side will make the table to be aligned to that side, if on the opposite side the margin is defined asauto.To have a table center aligned, you should set both margins toauto

For example, a right-aligned table:

{|| Orange| Apple|-| Bread| Pie|-| Butter| Ice cream|}Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscingelit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt utlaoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisienim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tationullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex eacommodo consequat.

And a center-aligned table:

{|| Orange| Apple|-| Bread| Pie|-| Butter| Ice cream|}Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscingelit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt utlaoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisienim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tationullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex eacommodo consequat.

If you align a table to the right or the left side of the page, the text that comes after the table starts at the end of it, leaving an empty space around the table.You can make the text to be wrapped around the table by making the table tofloat around the text instead of just aligning it.This can be achieved using thefloat CSS attribute, which can specify whether the table floats to the right side or to the left.When usingfloat, margins don't control table alignment and can be used to specify the margin between the table and the surrounding text.

{|| Orange| Apple|-| Bread| Pie|-| Butter| Ice cream|}Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscingelit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt utlaoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisienim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tationullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex eacommodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolorin hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat,vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at veroeros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blanditpraesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore tefeugait nulla facilisi.

The alignment of cell contents can be controlled with 2 different CSS properties:text-align andvertical-align.text-align can be specified at the table, row or individual cells, whilevertical-align only can be specified at individual rows or cells.

{||-| | A| | B| | C|-| | D| | E| | F|-| | G| | H| | I|}

If you start a cell on a new line with a negative number with a minus sign (or a parameter that evaluates to a negative number), your table can get broken, because the characters|- will be parsed as the wiki markup for table row, not table cell.To avoid this, insert a space before the value (| -6) or use in-line cell markup (|| -6).

Table borders specified through CSS rather than the border attribute will render incorrectly in a small subset of text browsers.

The MediaWiki syntax for tables currently offers no support for specifying common attributes for columns (with the HTML element‎<col/>), column groups (HTML element‎<colgroup>‎</colgroup>) and row groups (HTML elements‎<thead>‎</thead>,‎<tbody>‎</tbody> and‎<tfoot>‎</tfoot>).Those standard HTML elements are not accepted even in their HTML or XHTML syntax.

All the rows and cells (header or data) of the table are rendered within a single implicit row group (HTML element‎<tbody>‎</tbody>) without any attributes or styles.

See also:Help:VisualEditor/User guide

SeePhab: T108245: "Fully support basic table editing in the visual editor".See the list of tasks. Finished tasks arestruck. It can be difficult to figure out from the technical language there what exactly has been improved, or what features have been added. Please add explanatory info below.

Click on a column or row header.Then click on the arrow.From the popup menu click on "Move" or "Delete".

From the same popup menu click on "Insert".

It is possible to copy and paste a table from a web page directly into theVisual Editor (VE).To do so safely, use a sandbox and check the table for proper coding in wikitext source mode and proper display in the Visual Editor and in preview mode.

• Excel2Wiki allows you to copy a spreadsheet from Excel, Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, or Gnumeric to convert it into wikicode table.

• Sorting rows of a table
• w:Help:Tables
• A visual tool that helps generate tables

• Help