HRWiki:autocolumn

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Revision as of 07:42, 21 February 2006

Description: An extension to easily create tables whose columns have equal lengths (or nearly so), especially for tables that are updated often.

Written by: It's dot com

Please put any bugs or feature requests on the talk page.

Format

<table [parameters]>

<autocolumn [parameters]>

[single list of content to be automatically divided]

</autocolumn>
</table>

Parameters

The parameters in the <table> tag are the normal table parameters, and are optional.

The available <autocolumn> parameters are listed below. Each one is optional.

cols – the number of columns (the default is 2)

width – the remaining parameters are normal cell parameters

align

valign

class

style

You cannot have fewer than 2 columns. You cannot have more columns than total items in the list. The function ignores all white space between the tags. It formats each column according to wiki markup rules.

Variations

• You can use wiki table markup ( {| ... |} ) instead of HTML.
• You can have a header row.
• You can stack <autocolumn> rows within the same table.

Example

<table width="80%">
<autocolumn cols="3" width="33%">
*'''Debut:''' [[some kinda robot]]
*[[i she be]]
*[[guitar]]
*[[island]]
*[[japanese cartoon]]
*[[personal favorites]]
*[[different town]]
*[[rock opera]]
*[[radio]]
</autocolumn>
</table>

Gallery

View the source code to see how each table was made.