Help:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup/2/table 2
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start | Besides beginning the table, this is also where the table's class is defined – for example, class="wikitable" . A table's "class" applies standard Wikipedia formatting to that table. The two most commonly used classes are "wikitable" and "wikitable sortable"; the latter 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 the 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, separated by 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, separated by 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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