Forum:Can we use COLGROUP tag in Wiki Tables?

HTML has the COLGROUP tag that you can use to set the attributes of a column instead of having to say to get

It should be possible to say something like:

and get the same appearance

The following is a trial with just a HTML table. When I open it directly as a file in Firefox, the widths are used but not the alignment. When I do the same in Internet Explorer, the table looks exactly as I would expect it (score one for Microsoft).

Has anyone encountered or solved this question already? Any help would be greatly appreciated. When I checked w3c, it indicated that the align attribute may not be supported by all browsers but that it would be possible to use a class with the colgroup to get the desired results. In the past, I have used a template to describe the format of each line of the table, but was hoping that there was another method to use as well.

Thanks in advance,

Mrjoeterrace 17:11, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables doesnt look like MediaWiki supports it. --Uberfuzzy 18:29, March 22, 2010 (UTC)