Thread:Sirebel/@comment-31392267-20170331223109/@comment-26829117-20170401080650

[[User:Evangelos Th30s|Evangelos Th30s] thank you for the feedback and kind words. I've worked in IT all of my life so creating web pages isn't really hard for me and we basically use a wiki like tool for documentation these days so it's not that different to me.

The contents at the top of my page is created automatically if you use headings. Headings are created using equal signs at the start of the line and at the end of the line. The number of equal signs you use defines the heading level (h2 ==, h3 ===, h4 === etc). This page gives you some of the basic formatting markup. If you select classic edit on my profile page and click on the source tab you will see all the markup being used. My advice would be to change the default editor to source view. It's much easier than using the visual editor if you want to do more complex things.

The best way to learn how to write wiki tables is to look at examples and copy them. This is what I did to create my outstanding upgrades table and the all cars table. They basically both use the same template. Templates are also a good thing to learn and make formatting tables much easier.

The basic way to do a table can be seen on this page. Which defines the headers like this:

Whilst this is a simple approach, if you want to change any style or formatting you need to change every row in your table. A much better way is to create a template for the header, row and footer. You can create your own templates in your user space using something like this:


 * Header for Carstate
 * Row for Carstate
 * Trailer for Carstate

Templates are then used in your table like this:

Where a/b/c/d represent the values you want to pass to the template as parameter 1,2,3,4 etc.

As I said, the best way to learn is to copy what other people have done. Don't be afraid to press the edit button and view their source (as long as you don't change anything on other peoples pages) and copy what they have done into your own page. Make some small changes and see what it does to your table. Don't be afraid of messing things up. If you look under edit history you will see that all changes can be reversed.

I would suggest having a look at some of the help pages on the wiki, getting used to the source view and experimenting in your own sandbox area. You should also check out Sandbox which explains some of the markup.

Hope this helps and always happy to answer questions and help people learn how to edit the wiki. I look forward to you helping out improve the wiki once you've learnt how to do it on your profile page ;-)