Help:Tables

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

There are two ways to construct tables in the wiki :

1.Particular formatting style with { and | in "wiki text"

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+ The table's caption 
! Column heading 1 !! Column heading 2 !! Column heading 3
|-
|Cell 1 || Cell 2 || Cell 3
|-
| Row heading A
|Cell B
|Cell C
|}
The table's caption
Column heading 1 Column heading 2 Column heading 3
Row heading 1 Cell 2 Cell 3
Row heading A Cell B Cell C

2.the wiki also understands html code for tables (i.e.

tags) if you prefer that. The help page for mediawiki that explains which html tags and the brackets is here.


<table> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td>6</td> </tr> </table>
1 2
3 4
5 6



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If this terse instruction set is unclear or inadequate, users are requested to fix it. Thanks.