User talk:Marissahall

Help me!
Please help me with... Hi, I'm trying to put together a filmography. I'm assuming it's by inserting a table. Everything seems straightforward except one thing: if there are two separate films in the same year, I'd like to be able to have one bigger year cell that encompasses the two films in separate rows, like in this filmography Joel Edgerton - in the first year listed of the filmography, 1996, there are two different rows- for Loaded and Race the Sun, but 1996 is in a bigger cell and is only entered once. I'd like to be able to do this instead of having to have two cells of the same year for each film in that year, such as in this filmography Ben Affleck Filmography see the two 1992s for School Ties and Buffy the Vampire Slayer for example. It only seems possible to do this second way. Please let me know if you know how to do the first way. Thanks very much for your help. Best Marissahall (talk) 01:47, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * If you look at the source code of the table, you'll note the use of "rowspan="2"|1996" in the Edgerton filmography table. That's how you produce the effect I think you want.
 * Most of your edits are using the Visual Editor, it seems, and it's possible there's a way to tell it to do this as well, but - as I don't use the Visual Editor - I'm afraid I can't tell you what that method, if there is one, is.
 * This is a very common practice among Wikipedia editors: if you are curious to know how a particular effect is achieved on a page, check the source editor version of the page. While this doesn't always work, it should provide the necessary clue in something in excess of 95% of the cases.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 03:34, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much for the info and suggestion. I'll give it a try. Marissahall (talk) 03:42, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I couldn't leave well enough alone. In looking at some of the tutorials for the VE, it seems there is a "merge cells" option that may allow you to achieve your desired result. See: Help:Introduction to tables with VisualEditor/2  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 05:20, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * That did it! You're a life saver. And the Visual Editor is much easier for me, so it's doubly helpful. Thank you so much. Marissahall (talk) 06:01, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * One more thing if you get a chance...do you know how to color a cell? In that Edgerton filmography table under Filmmaking Credits or Awards and Nominations for example, I'm wondering how to turn cells pink or green like that. Thanks very much. Marissahall (talk) 18:53, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * If you look at the Wiki markup source of the Edgerton table, you'll see they use templates yes and no which have the property of turning their cells the two different colors. You have to be careful adding templates using VE since it has a tendency to put 'nowiki' tags around them as if you wanted to preserve the double braces.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 04:31, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, I'll take a look. Thanks so much. Marissahall (talk) 05:13, 22 December 2022 (UTC)