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Whether you've just inserted a new table, or are editing an existing one, changing the text in the table cells determines what the table looks like to a reader. But you can do more than just change text.


A table consists of the following basic elements, all of which you can modify:
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Blank spaces at the beginning and end of a cell are ignored.
When you use the [[File:Vector toolbar insert table button.png|25px|link=]] toolbar button to insert a table, it actually inserts markup text into the article for you to edit. There are two common ways to lay out this markup that you may see around Wikipedia
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=== Layout ===
Both of the above examples look the same in an article.
When you edit an existing table, you'll probably see one of two common ways that the table is laid out:
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To a reader, both of the above examples will look the same:

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Whether you've just inserted a new table, or are editing an existing one, changing the text in these cells determines what table displays in the article.
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===How the individual table elements works===
If you want more control over tables, you'll want to know how the formatting actually works. A table actually just consists of the following basic elements:

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Blank spaces at the beginning and end of a cell are ignored. The table's "class" applies a standard set of Wikipedia formatting to it. The two most commonly used classes are "wikitable" and "wikitable sortable".

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Latest revision as of 05:35, 7 November 2021

Editing tables
The basics

Expanding tables
Adding rows and columns

Summary
Review of what you've learned



Whether you've just inserted a new table, or are editing an existing one, changing the text in the table cells determines what the table looks like to a reader. But you can do more than just change text.

A table consists of the following basic elements, all of which you can modify:

{| start Besides beginning the table, this is also where the table's class is defined – for example, class="wikitable". A table's "class" applies standard Wikipedia formatting to that table. The two most commonly used classes are "wikitable" and "wikitable sortable"; the latter allows the reader to sort the table by clicking on the header cell of any column.
|+ caption Required for accessibility purposes on data tables, and placed only between the table start and the first table row.
! header cell Optional. Each header cell starts with a new line and a single exclamation mark (!), or several header cells can be placed consecutively on the same line, separated by double exclamation marks (!!).
|- new row To begin a new row of cells, use a single vertical bar (|) and a hyphen (-).
| new cell
in row
To add a new cell in a row, start each new cell with a new line and a single vertical bar (|), or several cells can be placed consecutively on the same line, separated by double vertical bars (||).
|} end To end the table, use a single vertical bar (|) and a left facing curly brace (}) alone on a new line.

Blank spaces at the beginning and end of a cell are ignored.

Layout

When you edit an existing table, you'll probably see one of two common ways that the table is laid out:

To a reader, both of the above examples will look the same:

Caption
Header C1 Header C2 Header C3
R1C1 R1C2 R1C3
R2C1 R2C2 R2C3