Help:How to make tables

Tables can help you put a lot of information in to a concentrated space. They are a little bit difficult to make so only read this if you are already farmiliar with how text formatting works. To start a table make a line with just {| and nothing else. On the next line put |- which means you are starting to put in information for the first row of the table. On the next line put a | which means you are making a cell in the row and put the contents of that cell on the rest of the line. On the next line put an other | and the contents of the second cell. Make as many cells in a row as you want using |. To start the second row put |- on the next line to signify a new row. Think of it as makign a table row by row. To finish the table make a line at the end with |}. Below you can see an example of what you would type to make a table and what it makes in the article.

A simple table

You type	You get
{| |- |''Cabin'' |''Number of campers'' |- |Cabin 1 |4 |- |Cabin 6 |4 |- |Eagle's Nest |8 |- |Buzzard's Roost |8 |}	Cabin Number of campers Cabin 1 4 Cabin 6 4 Eagle's Nest 8 Buzzard's Roost 8

To make the thing above I actually used a table. I made a row with a cell You type and a cell You get. Then I made a new row with a cell for the box with the code in it and a cell with a table inside it (you can put tables inside tables). Using a table was the only way I could have made it look like that. Tables can give you a lot of control over your page. As you can see, the table above does not have and lines between the cells. Read on to see how you can add atributes like this to tables.

Headers

You can make headers to rows or columns of a table or both.

Headers on columns

You type	You get
{| |- !Cabin !Campers |- |Cabin 1 |4 |- |Cabin 6 |4 |- |Eagle's Nest |8 |- |Buzzard's Roost |8 |}	Cabin Campers Cabin 1 4 Cabin 6 4 Eagle's Nest 8 Buzzard's Roost 8

Headers on rows

You type

You get

{| |- !Name |Adric Allie |Will Brewster |Teddy Brown |- !Seal time |1:28 |1:48 |1:32 |}

Name Adric Allie Will Brewster Teddy Brown Seal time 1:28 1:48 1:32 Headers on both You type You get {| !1 !2 !3 !4 |- !1 |1 |2 |3 |4 |- !2 |2 |4 |6 |8 |- !3 |3 |6 |9 |12 |- !4 |4 |8 |12 |16 |} 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 4 2 2 4 6 8 3 3 6 9 12 4 4 8 12 16 Borders To make borders you place a border attibute in the first line of the table after the {| like this {|border="1". You can see an example of this below. You type You get {|border="1" |- |''Cabin'' |''Number of campers'' |- |Cabin 1 |4 |- |Cabin 6 |4 |- |Eagle's Nest |8 |- |Buzzard's Roost |8 |} Cabin Number of campers Cabin 1 4 Cabin 6 4 Eagle's Nest 8 Buzzard's Roost 8 Justification You can make a table appear on the right or middle of a page by using the align attribute like this: {|align="right". You can also set it to "center". If you want to make the table be in the center and have it have a border you can add multiple attributes to it like this: {|align="right" border="1". Below you can see some examples. Right You type You get {|align="right" border="1" |- |''Cabin'' |''Number of campers'' |- |Cabin 1 |4 |- |Cabin 6 |4 |- |Eagle's Nest |8 |- |Buzzard's Roost |8 |} Cabin Number of campers Cabin 1 4 Cabin 6 4 Eagle's Nest 8 Buzzard's Roost 8 Center You type You get {|align="center" border="1" |- |''Cabin'' |''Number of campers'' |- |Cabin 1 |4 |- |Cabin 6 |4 |- |Eagle's Nest |8 |- |Buzzard's Roost |8 |} Cabin Number of campers Cabin 1 4 Cabin 6 4 Eagle's Nest 8 Buzzard's Roost 8 Captions You can caption a table by adding an extra line after the first line. This line is started with |+ and then after that you put the caption. On the top of the table You type You get {|border="1" |+Birch Rock cabins |- |''Cabin'' |''Number of campers'' |- |Cabin 1 |4 |- |Cabin 6 |4 |- |Eagle's Nest |8 |- |Buzzard's Roost |8 |} Birch Rock cabins Cabin Number of campers Cabin 1 4 Cabin 6 4 Eagle's Nest 8 Buzzard's Roost 8 On the bottom of the table You type You get {|border="1" |+align="bottom"|Birch Rock cabins |- |''Cabin'' |''Number of campers'' |- |Cabin 1 |4 |- |Cabin 6 |4 |- |Eagle's Nest |8 |- |Buzzard's Roost |8 |} Birch Rock cabins Cabin Number of campers Cabin 1 4 Cabin 6 4 Eagle's Nest 8 Buzzard's Roost 8 Colors You can make the text and border of a table a different color and the background of it a different color with the style attribute. After the {| in the first line you can add style="color:green;background-color:blue;" to make the text and borders green and the backround blue. Look below for examples. Change the text and border color You type You get {|border="1" style="color:green;" |- |''Cabin'' |''Number of campers'' |- |Cabin 1 |4 |- |Cabin 6 |4 |- |Eagle's Nest |8 |- |Buzzard's Roost |8 |} Cabin Number of campers Cabin 1 4 Cabin 6 4 Eagle's Nest 8 Buzzard's Roost 8 Change the background color You type You get {|border="1" style="background-color:blue;" |- |''Cabin'' |''Number of campers'' |- |Cabin 1 |4 |- |Cabin 6 |4 |- |Eagle's Nest |8 |- |Buzzard's Roost |8 |} Cabin Number of campers Cabin 1 4 Cabin 6 4 Eagle's Nest 8 Buzzard's Roost 8 Change both the text and border color and the background color You type You get {|border="1" style="color:orange;background-color:blue;" |- |''Cabin'' |''Number of campers'' |- |Cabin 1 |4 |- |Cabin 6 |4 |- |Eagle's Nest |8 |- |Buzzard's Roost |8 |} Cabin Number of campers Cabin 1 4 Cabin 6 4 Eagle's Nest 8 Buzzard's Roost 8