HRWiki:autocolumn

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Revision as of 21:07, 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.

Filename: wfAutoColumn.php

Written by: It's dot com ©2006

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 – "top" is the default value

class

style

You cannot have fewer than 2 columns, except that you cannot have more columns than total items in the list. The function removes all extra white space between the tags and then formats each column according to standard wiki markup rules.

Variations

• You can use wiki table markup ( {| ... |} ) instead of HTML (see gallery sample 1).
• You can have a header row (see gallery sample 1).
• You can stack <autocolumn> rows within the same table (see gallery sample 2).
• If the entire list is an ordered list (each line begins with a # and has no subitems), it will be correctly numbered across the columns (see gallery sample 3).

Example

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

Gallery

View the source code to see how each table was made. You can also experiment in the sandbox.

Sample 1

Sample 2

Sample 3