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HTML is a markup language that defines the structure and presentation of web pages. It is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, along with CSS and JavaScript. HTML allows creating and formatting text, images, links, tables, forms, and other elements on a web page. Learn more about the history, syntax, and features of HTML on Wikipedia.
Tables are a way of presenting links, data, or information in rows and columns. They are a complex form of list, formatted into a systematic grid pattern. Tables might be useful for presenting mathematical data such as multiplication tables, comparative figures, or sporting results. They may also be useful for presenting equivalent words in two ...
Basically MediaWiki has deprecated some HTML table elements. Though those elements are not deprecated outside MediaWiki. An illustrated example for Help:Table: <thead>, <tbody>, <tfoot>, <colgroup>, and <col> elements are currently not supported in MediaWiki. Those tags are ejected to above the table as plain text.
For copying web page tables that can't be copied directly into the visual editor (as described in the previous section): Try copying the table into Excel2Wiki. Click "convert". Copy and paste the table wikitext into the wikitext editor. Save. Do further editing in VE.
Captions use the |+ markup. The markup does directly hold content, so attributes should be followed by a pipe ( |) before the content. The syntax for caption attributes is: |+ attribute="value" attribute2="value2" | Table caption. For example, this styles the text color as red for the caption:
The table of contents is included; Tables, including most infoboxes, are rendered. Some small types of box used for local on-wiki information are omitted. Images and galleries are rendered; Long equations are overflowing; The "Download as PDF" option might not appear when using a custom theme on Wikipedia on some desktop web browsers.
To automatically insert a table, click or (Insert a table) on the edit toolbar. In the Vector toolbar the table icon is in the "Advanced" menu. If "Insert a table" is not on the toolbar follow these directions to add it. The following text is inserted when Insert a table is clicked:
Text inside "small" {{small| display in a }} {{small| reduced-size }} font. This text will display in a reduced-size font. Note that the current default size depends on context and enclosing formatting: For example, footnotes and references default to displayed in a slightly smaller-than-usual font, and headings (of various levels) default to ...