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<noinclude>[[Category:General table templates]]</noinclude>{|BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 STYLE="border-style:solid; border-collapse:collapse; empty-cells:show; background-color:#f9f9f9;" WIDTH={{{width|100%}}} ALIGN={{{align|center}}} | <noinclude>Easily our worst template, '''Table''' defies all laws of sensible wiki editing. Transcluding it opens a table that needs to be closed manually. It ignores the existence of a nearly-identical pre-defined table class, "wikitable". And it's long been used as our standard method of making a table, in too many places to sanely contemplate fixing. | ||
Please do not exacerbate the problem, and avoid using this template when making new tables. You can use the [[wikipedia:Help:Table|standard table syntax]] directly, or else open a table with <tt>{| class="wikitable"</tt> to get similar formatting. You can even use the Smart Table button in our [[XEB|extended editing toolbar]] to get a wizard for magically creating a customized wikitable. | |||
And remember, kids, if Wikipedia's not doing something a certain way, then it's probably not a good idea. [[Category:General table templates]]</noinclude><includeonly>{|BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 STYLE="border-style:solid; border-collapse:collapse; empty-cells:show; background-color:#f9f9f9;" WIDTH={{{width|100%}}} ALIGN={{{align|center}}}</includeonly> | |||
Revision as of 19:27, 16 April 2012
Easily our worst template, Table defies all laws of sensible wiki editing. Transcluding it opens a table that needs to be closed manually. It ignores the existence of a nearly-identical pre-defined table class, "wikitable". And it's long been used as our standard method of making a table, in too many places to sanely contemplate fixing.
Please do not exacerbate the problem, and avoid using this template when making new tables. You can use the standard table syntax directly, or else open a table with {| class="wikitable" to get similar formatting. You can even use the Smart Table button in our extended editing toolbar to get a wizard for magically creating a customized wikitable.
And remember, kids, if Wikipedia's not doing something a certain way, then it's probably not a good idea.