Help:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup/2/table 2
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start | Besides beginning the table, this is also where table class is defined – for example, class="wikitable". A table's "class" applies a standard set of Wikipedia formatting to that table. The two most commonly used classes are "wikitable" and "wikitable sortable", which allows the reader to sort the table by clicking on the header cell of any column.
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caption | Required for accessibility purposes on data tables, and placed only between table start and the first table row. |
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header cell | Optional. Each header cell starts with a new line and a single exclamation mark (!), or several header cells can be placed consecutively on the same line between double exclamation marks (!!).
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new row | To begin a new row of cells use a single vertical bar (|) and a hyphen (-).
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new cell in row |
To add a new cell in a row, start each new cell with a new line and a single vertical bar (|), or several cells can be placed consecutively on the same line between double vertical bars (||).
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end | To end the table use a single vertical bar (|) and a left facing curly brace (}) alone on a new line.
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