Tables

Try out all these techniques below in the playground.

In the editing toolbar, there is an icon for a few things: . Clicking on that brings up a menu: . It's the second of these, that helps here. Clicking there gives you this …

<table>
<caption>caption</caption>
^ Header1 ^ Header2 ^
| foo    | bar    |
</table>

… and you can extend on this by adapting and repeating the patterns you see there. This takes us into the territory of …

<table tab_label>
<caption>A table to demonstrate table features</caption>
^ Col 1 ^ Col 2 ^ Col 3 ^ Col 4 ^ Col 5 ^ Col 6 ^ padding ^
| xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
|left       |  centred  |  right|left       |  centred  |  right|?|
|  centred  |  right|left       |  centred  |  right| left  |?|
|  right | left       |    centred    |  right | left       |  centred  |?|
| xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
</table>

The key to the alignment of table cells are the spaces. In short, put two or more spaces where you don't want the contents to be. Zero or one space either side of cell contents will result in default left-alignment.

More detail on DokuWiki: syntax#tables