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Tables are a common way of displaying data. 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).
There are several advanced table formatting techniques to improve the display or editing of wikitables in Wikipedia. Most of the tips involve use of standard text-editors. While some special software packages exist, to allow customized editing, they are typically not available when travelling to other computers for wiki-editin
Currently, there does not seem to be a way to copy those tables to a wiki and keep styling such as colors (background or text color). It is possible to convert PDF tables to Excel and keep the colors. Or to HTML tables and keep the colors. But there does not seem to be a way to copy any of those colored tables (PDF, Excel, HTML, etc.) to a wiki.
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. Also, note that the <thead>, <tbody>, <tfoot>, <colgroup>, and <col> elements are not supported in wikitext.
W3Schools is a freemium educational website for learning coding online. [1] [2] Initially released in 1998, it derives its name from the World Wide Web but is not affiliated with the W3 Consortium. [3] [4] [unreliable source] W3Schools offers courses covering many aspects of web development. [5] W3Schools also publishes free HTML templates.
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 ]
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
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. {{static row numbers}} - adds a column of row numbers to a table. {{table alignment}} - aligns the cells in a column, or a whole table.