Help talk:Tables

Sortable tables
It would be good to add a section on making tables sortable using class="wikitable sortable"

Meta-Wiki links
It would be good to explain right at the top that the Meid wiki help page on tables is more comprehensive and taht this is a simplified version and experienced users of wikipedia or wikia might like to go straight there.Investoman 02:11, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Added a link under the markup section, and tweaked the see also link. Kirkburn (talk) 23:42, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Bio Box?
Alright, I'm not sure if this is the right place to come to, but would this article be useful in creating a small bio box on the top of pages? EX: Jeff Gordon, you list his hometown, racing career, stats, ect... in it. It's usually on the top right of pages.


 * Yes, and you may be also be interested in Help:Templates. Kirkburn (talk) 18:20, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Not playing nice with fixed width
The Help:Tables page over at The Vault is not formatting correctly since our recent change to fixed width pages. I wonder if there can be a fix for this?--Gothemasticator 05:55, June 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * Best thing to do is disable the fixed width at help pages. Mark  ( talk ) 16:15, June 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, it's the easiest thing to do but I'm not sure it's the best. If help pages have display issues on fixed-width-wikis, they have display issues on 1024*768 resolution as well - which is still a very common resolution. The fixes required for this page aren't that extensive - I can patch it up if people don't mind. -- Porter21 (talk) 08:33, June 29, 2010 (UTC)

Source mode
This content is from a request made by Tjr

"This page needs to explain the "source commands" you use without the Rich Text Editor. This is important when fixing the mess people sometimes make"

Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:04, August 17, 2010 (UTC)

Headers are changed on simple edits
Most times when I try to make a simple spelling change to text in any table at castleage.wikia.com, I end up corrupting the headers. This happens both in source view and the icon view modes. I've tried Firefox (the last few versions, failed on 3.6.11 today), Chrome (latest few versions, failed on 7.0.517.41 today) and Opera (latest few versions, failed in 10.63 today). Trying to make a simple change ends up showing the following type of thing on a preview:

Note that I'm only trying to make a simple spelling change on line 179, no formatting changes of any kind. The other changes are happening in the background somehow. The result varies between browsers, but is wrong in some way in all of them. Firefox and Chrome spit out raw wikia format line(s) from the table headers above the table (&#124;- valign="bottom" !width="125px"&#124; !width="50px"&#124;Image !width="50px"&#124;Type !Attack !Defense !Initial Cost !Incremental Cost(Per Unit) !Upkeep !Battle Points Needed) and display no formatted table headers. Opera adds the columns for row 1 as a new set of column headers beside the first set of column headers, making the table double width, displaying rows 2+ under the proper columns. I'm not sure if this is a wikia problem directly or something with the Castle Age page, but folks there don't seem to understand the problem, so I figured I'd post the feedback here. I'm submitting the changes anonymously, so perhaps something funny is happening with default permissions or similar with anonymous submissions?

Source mode Code
For some reason, a article is NOWYSIWYG and I'm trying to add a table, but I need to know how in source mode. -- Rsrealm Talk Guestbook   21:07, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

Scroll
How can I make a scrolling table just like this here: 1 on the tab - "Einal"? MisSkitty 16:15, May 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm asking only for the scroller! MisSkitty 16:19, May 17, 2012 (UTC)

Missing "Tables" button
There is no "Tables" button in our editor in the "Templates" nor the " Add features and media" sections of our edit window. --

13:58, May 25, 2012 (UTC)

Same Problem Here... The one and only KEWLBEN 02:52, May 20, 2013 (UTC)

Over a year later and it seems this problem stil hasn't been resolved ; → Koschei: :  Life. But not as we know it.  08:14, July 10, 2013 (UTC)
 * You would get better results asking this question on the forums, as the header suggests. Thisismyrofl (talk) 08:18, July 10, 2013 (UTC)`

Centered thumbnail image with a caption?
We need to have the last thumbnail in Season 3 section centered in the following template, does anyone know how to do this? Xeoxer (talk) 18:33, January 19, 2013 (UTC)

Wikitable css
What is the default css code for the table class "wikitable"? I want to add a few new classes to my wiki but I need the color codes. --

14:47, June 28, 2013 (UTC)


 * That's all going to be defined in this file. Just do a search for wikitable. Rappy 14:53, June 28, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks Rappy -- Found exactly what I needed. -- 13:39, June 29, 2013 (UTC)

Table Template
Hi. I'm trying to create a template for a conflict/battles page on the Planet of the Apes wiki. I was wondering how do you create one like this: http://camphalfblood.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Olympian_War

I've tried to copy and paste it but nothing working. PLEASE I need help with this ASAP!Chawk1993 (talk) 06:34, November 5, 2013 (UTC)

How do you change color in a table?
I'm trying to change color in a table, and i don't know how to do it. Can someone help me?

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 * 1) IF you want to change the entire tables color then you add {| style="background: < background-color >; color: < font-color >;"  to the table code.
 * 2) IF you want to change the color of an entire row (left/right) then you add |- style="background: < background-color >; color: < font-color >;"  just above the row that you want to change
 * 3) IF you want to change the color of an individual cell then you add | style="background: < background-color >; color: < font-color >;" |  to each of the individual cells that you want changed

12:14, January 10, 2014 (UTC)

Templates on Table style parameters
The title may not be named well, but here's a gist of what I want to do

Currently, I have a template which stores all my rgba (by #switch) so that I could just edit one single page to control all the colors of whatever uses this template (for this sample let's just call it colors.) However, once I input those via, and assuming  , what happens is:

!  align=center style="background:#FFCC00;" | Hello

Instead of something like:

A turnaround to this is making the table into a template, using  then once executing the template I could have.

However, my biggest gripe is that I've done this numerous times before already on another wiki (specifically this wiki), but somehow it doesn't work on the one I just started.

Do I have to import something for this to start working?

Additional note, but the  I'm using is   since I have it on a template

17:38, August 3, 2018 (UTC)


 * Please ask this on our Forum rather than the help talk page (as the top of the page suggests). Thanks. Rappy 17:54, August 3, 2018 (UTC)

CSS and Image Backgrounds
I am having trouble with getting tables to show there image backgrounds. Insead of one image percell, how do I get it so that all the cells show different parts of an image? Jonmichaelriggboi2 (talk) 23:34, December 9, 2019 (UTC)

I probably should have clarified. I want to find out how to grid an image with table cells that each take up a different part of the image.


 * The only way I know to do this is to literally edit the image and break it up in the the number of cells and have each cell show the specific portion of the image as the background image. -- 14:02, December 11, 2019 (UTC)

Cell Merging
If possible, is there a way to merge cells? Something along the lines of this:


 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables#HTML_colspan_and_rowspan should help you with this! -- Kirkburn (talk) 20:23, 2 March 2022 (UTC)