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When changing or creating a new template, follow the use of colour guidelines and the color accessibility guidelines when choosing the background color and, sometimes, the text color. Many of these templates can be used with links to other articles or references, so the links should be clearly identifiable against the background color.
For example, nested tables (tables inside tables) should be separated into distinct tables when possible. Here is a more advanced example, showing some more options available for making up tables. Users can play with these settings in their own table to see what effect they have.
To use a colour in a template or table you can use the hex triplet (e.g. bronze is #CD7F32) or HTML color names (e.g. red). Editors are encouraged to make use of Brewer palettes for charts, maps, and other entities, using this tool .
This template creates a shaded table cell according to its value. It interpolates the colour between given min and max values and colors (if not specified, these are assumed to be white for the min and black for the max). The font colour is turned black or white depending on the luminosity of the cell background.
A table is an arrangement of columns and rows that organizes and positions data or images. Tables can be created on Wikipedia pages using special wikitext syntax, and many different styles and tricks can be used to customise them.
Tables will show the "[hide]" / "[show]" controls in the first row of the table (whether or not it is a header row), unless a table caption is present.(see § Tables with captions) Example with a header row
Most commonly used attributes Property Meaning Example background back ground fill: background: yellow; color text colour: color: blue; width cell width
All data tables need a table caption that succinctly describes what the table is about. [WCAG 2] It plays the role of a table heading, and is recommended as a best practice. [2] You would usually need some kind of heading or description introducing a new table anyway, and this is what the caption feature exists for. Table captions are made with |+.