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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 .
Normally, copying and pasting columns or rows removes the inline CSS styling such as cell colors. There is a way to break up a table (a too-wide table for example) into more tables without losing all the background colors, and other inline styling. Copy the table to 2 sandboxes (or one sandbox, and in the article itself).
However, for decades, HTML has had only limited options for easy alignment (one: <center>, which is now deprecated). A method for undenting the first word of a paragraph is to put the paragraph into a text-table, where the first word (or syllable) is (alone) in column 1, while the other text is in column 2. Wikicode
The table above (even if some more columns are added) maintains one line per country for narrower browser and screen widths. So it is therefore more readable and scannable in long country tables. The table format below can greatly increase in number of lines, and require more vertical scrolling, especially if more columns are added.
Syntax highlighting is a feature of text editors that is used for programming, scripting, or markup languages, such as HTML. The feature displays text, especially source code , in different colours and fonts according to the category of terms. [ 1 ]
<pre> is a parser tag that emulates the HTML <pre> tag. It defines preformatted text that is displayed in a fixed-width font and is enclosed in a dashed box. HTML-like and wiki markup tags are escaped, spaces and line breaks are preserved, but HTML elements are parsed.
Help:Table/Advanced § Highlight rows on hover {} – Can be used to help narrow columns by adding a soft hyphen to a word to allow it to wrap. More template styles for tables: {{sticky header}} - makes column headers stick to the top of the page while scrolling through table data. {} - moves the sorting arrows under the headers.
mw:Extension:CodeEditor – syntax highlighting for JavaScript, CSS and modules available on a button < > at the left of the toolbar for these page types; mw:User:Remember the dot/Syntax highlighter – documentation for the wiki-code syntax highlighter available as "Syntax highlighter" under Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets