[Mediawiki-l] Coloring Cells in Tables

[Brian J Mingus]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Tech Geek <techgeek12345 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I am trying to achieve the same thing as the OP of this thread wanted
> [1].
>
> Basically, to get "green" color for "yes" and "red" color for "no" in the
> cells just like a standard comparison table on the Internet Wikipedia [2].
> So I defined my table (simpliefied example) in the wiki page as follow:
>
> {| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="1" class="wikitable sortable"
> |-
> ! A
> ! B
> |-
> | {{Yes}}
> | {{No}}
> |}
>
> Obviously nothing happened with the above code i.e. I did not get any green
> or red background color in the cell. In an expected manner wiki engine
> displayed "Yes" and "No" with a "wanted link".
>
> Now I am not sure if I have to create Templates called Template:Yes and
> Template:No? And if I do have to create these templates, what should be the
> content of those templates?
>
> I am using MediaWiki 1.12 version.
>
> [1]
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg03986.html
>
> [2]
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue_tracking_systems#Input_Interfaces
>
>
Hello, you will need to create such templates. Have a look at the following
table I made:

http://grey.colorado.edu/emergent/index.php/Comparison_of_Neural_Network_Simulators

If you dig around the code on that wiki you should figure it out easily.

Cheers,