On Apr 25, 2005, at 11:20am, Rowan Collins wrote:
Hitting "view source" (what would normally
be "edit") reveals that
this is just a cunning use of table markup, with some . In this case,
the author has just used the good old HTML-style markup, but MediaWiki
also supports a more wiki-style "pipe markup", which has equivalents
for most things. See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
It's probably worth noting on this topic that:
a) The two (HTML and Wiki-pipe) table markups don't always seem to
produce the same results. The Wiki-pipe tables seem to end up with
extra whitespace characters that can affect the table layout. With HTML
tables you can get a tighter, more predictable layout. Of course, for
many tables the differences aren't significant enough to matter.
b) If you start adding a lot of style and other attributes to the
table, the Wiki-pipe table source quickly becomes no easier to read or
edit than HTML table source. Again, this may not be an issue for many
tables that don't contain much, or any, non-default attributes.
John Blumel