User:Vanished user 392817/Adoption/Tables

'For this lesson please put your screen into edit mode, and to see what the tables look like click preview! I apologize for the inconvenience, but it will help you to understand!'

Tables are a key part of Wikipedia, giving a vast amount of data in a box. This is basic coding for a table:

Which creates:

I prefer tables like this:

Which creates:

It is crucial that you ALWAYS start with  {| class="wikitable"  so that the table functions correctly! After that if you want A Title above the table you must put |+ in the Space directly under it. That would make it look like this:

After you write the first line or the title, you will put |-. This give the table the spaces between information!!!!! after the first one of these breaks comes the top row of information. This could be year, month, event, etc. To put some word in these boxes you put a ! and then the info you want inside that column. You can have an UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF COLUMNS! After puting this info down one by one, use another |- as a break. So far, your box coding should look like this.

After that comes the actual information! So after the |- put a |, which shows a regular row, and then put your information. To separate for each column, put a ||. EX.

''' | Monday || 4PM-8PM || May or may not have work. '''

With that in place, the table now looks like this!

After doing this multiple times for as much data as you have spacing with |-, it is time to end the table. to end it, directly under your last row put |}, thereby ending the table!

Please read the tables article for more advanced information (if you want)!

Task
Please create a table showing all the days of the week and which times during the day you will most likely be on (basically the same as above). Use the same format as you did before.

Matthew Desjardins
✅ I've have some experience with HTML tables, so familiar with some of the concepts (rowspan/colspan), I'm just new to some of the wiki-syntax for them. ''Good job! Previous experience is always welcome! Marx01 Tell me about it 04:25, 31 August 2009 (UTC)''

Wedgiey1
I cheated a little off Desjardin's. The rowspan stuff.

Wedgiey1 (talk) 14:24, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

✅ ''That's okay, as long as you understand the concept. During my adoption program I literally did the tables I had to do step by step by step.'' Marx01  Tell me about it 03:29, 1 September 2009 (UTC)