How to Create Tables in Pages

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Creating Tables

Tables are often needed for organizing information. TikiWiki has a simple syntax for defining a table. Each row in the text box creates one row in the table. Within each row, use one pipe symbol (|, above the \ on most PC keyboards) to separate table columns. Start and end the table with two pipes, like this:

||Sample Table
row1-col1|row1-col2|row1-col3
row2-col1|row2-col2|row2-col3||

to produce:

Sample Table
row1-col1	row1-col2	row1-col3
row2-col1	row2-col2	row2-col3

Notice that the first row only has one column, and the rest have three. Just build the table with one row of text per row of table.

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Line Breaks

If you need to have multiple rows in a single cell of a table, use three percent signs to create line breaks, like this:

||Sample Table
row1-col1|row1-col2%%%second line%%%third line|row1-col3
row2-col1|row2-col2|row2-col3%%%second line||

produces:

Sample Table
row1-col1	row1-col2 second line third line	row1-col3
row2-col1	row2-col2	row2-col3 second line

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Centering Table Text

To center any text, including text in a table, use two colons before and two colons after:

::This text is centered.::

produces:



||::Sample Table::
row1-col1|row1-col2
row2-col1|row2-col2||

produces:

Sample Table
row1-col1	row1-col2
row2-col1	row2-col2

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Centered Tables

To center a table itself, the structure gets a bit more complicated, because browsers don't follow the same rules. What works for one browser will not work in another. To insert a simple table centered, use this:

{BOX(align=>center)}||row1-col1|row1-col2
row2-col1|row2-col2||{BOX}

to produce:

row1-col1 row1-col2 row2-col1 row2-col2

At this time, both the box and the table have a border; this should be corrected in a future release, or else tables will allow an align property.

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Right-Aligned Tables

If you need to right-align a table itself, you must use a DIV structure, and you must use both the align and float commands, or IE users won't see it aligned correctly. Use this:

{DIV(class=>class, type=>div, align=>right, float=>right)}||::Sample Table::
row1-col1|row1-col2
row2-col1|row2-col2||{DIV}

to produce: