Magnus wrote:
OK, so is there an example for
- a row with several cells (say, more than 2)
- that has some properties in common (e.g., background)
- which can't be defined in the <table> / {| statement
- in a table that is not one of a default type (countries, elements
etc.)
Magnus, I do agree that most <tr..> options are redundant.
However I did find some that may qualify (there will be more but this is what I found in half an hour). Most address alignment. (<table align=..> has a different purpose)
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_game <tr align=center>
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/computation <tr align=center>
is this a standard table? http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Russia <tr align=center>
is this a standard table? (the elements table you mentioned is probably the Hydrogen etc version) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronegativity <tr align=center>
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_LR_parser <tr align=center>
only 2 columns but very many rows http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_timeline <tr valign=TOP>
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The option most used for table cells by far is align=... What do you think? Would a wiki shortcut for this be useful? If so, some suggestions for syntax, shown in this order: left,right,center. (align=left for completeness sake, left is default)
|< |> |^
or |[ |] |^
or
|l) |r) |c)
The last one might easily be extended to valign: |t) |b) |m)
So |ct) would expand to <td align='center' valign='top'>
Regards, Erik Zachte