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Creating Tables with Wiki Syntax

Tables are often needed for organizing data information. Tiki has a simple syntax for defining a table. In Wiki pages and other contexts that support Wiki formatting (including Articles, Forums, and Blog), you can create simple tables. A table can be entered using two alternative delimiters (separators) for the rows; your administrator chooses which one is enabled. Both use the pipe symbol (or a vertical bar "|", above the "\" on most PC keyboards) to separate table columns. A double pipe ( "||" ) starts and ends the table in both types of syntax.

If || is the row delimiter, then table rows are separated by double pipes ( "||" ), just as at the beginning and the end of a table:

||row1-column1|row1-column2||row2-column1|row2-column2||

produces:

If, on the other hand, a newline is the row delimiter, then each line in the Wiki box represents a row in the table. So,

||row1-column1|row1-column2
row2-column1|row2-column2||

produces the same table:

Spanning Across Columns

You can span across multiple columns (colspan) in a row with the following syntax:

||row1-column1|row1-column2|row1-column3||row2-columns123||row3-column1|row3-columns23||

or

||row1-column1|row1-column2|row1-column3 row2-columns123 row3-column1|row3-columns23||

produces

Note that partial column spanning only occurs in the last columns of a table. For instance, there is no way to span across the first two columns of a three column table.

Line Breaks

If you need to have multiple rows in a single cell of a table, use three percent signs to create line breaks, like this:

||Sample Table row1-col1|row1-col2%%%second line%%%third line|row1-col3 row2-col1|row2-col2|row2-col3%%%second line||

produces:

Centering Table Text

To center any text, including text in a table, use two colons before and two colons after:

::This text is centered.::

produces:

||::Sample Table:: row1-col1|row1-col2 row2-col1|row2-col2||

produces:

Centered Tables

To center a table itself, the structure gets a bit more complicated, because browsers don't follow the same rules. What works for one browser will not work in another. To insert a simple table centered, use this:

{BOX(align=>center)}||row1-col1|row1-col2 row2-col1|row2-col2||{BOX}

to produce:

At this time, both the box and the table have a border; this should be corrected in a future release, or else tables will allow an align property.

Right-Aligned Tables

If you need to right-align a table itself, you must use a DIV structure, and you must use both the align and float commands, or IE users won't see it aligned correctly. Use this:

{DIV(class=>class, type=>div, align=>right, float=>right)}||::Sample Table:: row1-col1|row1-col2 row2-col1|row2-col2||{DIV}

to produce:

Help & Hints

• If you see the WikiSyntax for your table instead of your table, check for newlines. Pressing Enter in the middle of a table will cause the table to break up, if || table mode is enabled.