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[citation needed] It takes its name from the poem Beautiful Soup from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [5] and is a reference to the term "tag soup" meaning poorly-structured HTML code. [6] Richardson continues to contribute to the project, [ 7 ] which is additionally supported by paid open-source maintainers from the company Tidelift.
{| table code goes here |} An optional table caption is included with a line starting with a vertical bar and plus sign "|+" and the caption after it: {| |+ caption table code goes here |} To start a new table row, type a vertical bar and a hyphen on its own line: "|-". The codes for the cells in that row start on the next line.
You can add a table using HTML rather than wiki markup, as described at HTML element#Tables. However, HTML tables are discouraged because wikitables are easier to customize and maintain, as described at manual of style on tables .
Table alignment}} can be used to align the cells in a whole column without adding code to each cell. For example, left aligning the first column, and center aligning the fourth column. And default aligning all other cells to the right: {
This is useful for many things. For example; for quickly updating country lists, or adding/updating a rank column, or copying a list of full names for states or countries. See Help:Sortable tables about rank columns and row numbers. See also: Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files.
The code above is in {{Conditional tables/example 2c}}. As before, the table below demonstrates the effect when it's used: As before, the table below demonstrates the effect when it's used: Template call
This tutorial provides a guide to making new tables and editing existing ones. For guidelines on when and how to use tables, see the Manual of Style . The easiest way to insert a new table is to use the editing toolbar that appears when you edit a page (see image above).
Lists and HTML tables go back to Wikipedia's early days. The current wikicode tables (see the section about tables), which you can edit more easily and even sort, came later. You'll find many more lists than tables on Wikipedia. For example, the External links sections that appear in almost every Wikipedia article are lists. Tables are less ...