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SimpleTable
Release status: unstable
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Description Converts tab- (or comma-) separated data into a Wiki table.
Author(s) JohanTheGhost
Maintainer(s) Vicarage
MediaWiki 1.35+
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The SimpleTable extension allows tabular data to be easily cut-and-pasted into a Wiki; for example, this allows a CSV export from Excel to be pasted in without having to manually edit it into Wiki table syntax. It's really crude, and doesn't allow any kind of clever formatting; for example, there is no way to set row and cell parameters, including row and cell spanning.

Usage

All you need to do is prepare your data in rows, with fields separated by tab characters. (Excel's "Save as" → "Text (Tab delimited)" function saves data in this format.) Place the data inside <tab>...</tab> tags, and set any table parameters inside the opening <tab> tag:

<tab border=1>
Field 1→Field 2→Field 3
Field 4→Field 5→Field 6
Field 7→Field 8→Field 9
</tab>

(where → represents a tab character) produces the corresponding table. Most table parameters should work; for example, if your wiki has the wikitable CSS class defined, then this markup should work:

<tab class=wikitable>
. . .

Parameter: sep

You can use a different separator, using the sep parameter.

Values

sep can be one of:

tab
a tab
space
a space
spaces
one or more spaces and/or tabs
comma
a comma
bar
a vertical bar (|)
semicolon
a semicolon

Parameter: head

You can also specify that either the top row or the left column should be formatted as a heading, using the head parameter.

Values

head can be one of:

top
make the top row a heading
left
make the left column a heading
topleft
do both

Oddly Top headings are done by default if head is omitted, use 'head=' to remove them

Example

<tab class=wikitable sep=comma head=top>
Head 1,Head 2,Head 3
Field 4,Field 5,Field 6
Field 7,Field 8,Field 9
</tab>

produces a table with a heading row and two data rows, all having three columns.

Installation

  • Download, unzip and place the file(s) in a directory called SimpleTable in your extensions/ folder.
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file: 
    wfLoadExtension( 'SimpleTable' );
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
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