Help:Tables


 * NOTE! The author of this article uses some self-made terms for explaining how to use tables.

Tables are used to display information in an easy-to-read manner. Depending on how you want the table to look, you can open it with {| or {|- but is always closed with |}. For the coding to register as a table starter and closer, it must be the first thing written on a line.

Columns
There are two ways of creating a new column. The Single-Pipe Method and the Dual-Pipe Method. The SP method requires you to start a new line with a pipe in order to create a new column.

Dual-Piping, on the other hand, allows you to create a new column by writing two pipes next to each other on the same line (the line still starts of with a single pipe though). Dual-Piping also has another function, with will be explained later.

Rows
An new row is created by inputing |- on a new line. It also has an added function that will be explained later.

The "Opener"
An "opener" is the code written after the table starter. The code written in the opener affects the table as a whole, while other coding only affects a specific row/ column (this will be explained later). Openers are generally used to avoid retyping the same code over and over again, if you want the code to apply to everything in the table. The table starter {| allows openers, while {|- does not. An example of how an opener can save you a lot of work:

By writing style="text-align:center" as an opener, I didn't have to write it once per line for the same effect.