Thread: Table Problems in Wiki
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dneary is offline dneary
2010-02-11 , 15:03
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#8
Hi all,

This is a styling issue, rather than a markup issue.

The table is there in all its
Code:
<table><tbody>...</tbody></table>
glory, it's just not getting prettied up.

I've been documenting (slowly) the wiki make-up (and I just got access to wiki.maemo.org with a shell account, so I can see even more what's happening) in the wiki at this page. You can find the link to the maemo2midgard repository on that page too: https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scm...=maemo2midgard

The culprit is this: http://static.maemo.org/style_maemo2009/css/reset.css

Code:
/* tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup */
table {
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border-spacing: 0;
}
The wiki table style is set here: http://wiki.maemo.org/index.php?titl...&smaxage=18000

Code:
/* wikitable/prettytable class for skinning normal tables */
table.wikitable,
table.prettytable {
    margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;
    background: #f9f9f9;
    border: 1px #aaa solid;
    border-collapse: collapse;
}
 
table.wikitable th, table.wikitable td,
table.prettytable th, table.prettytable td {
    border: 1px #aaa solid;
    padding: 0.2em;
}
 
table.wikitable th,
table.prettytable th {
    background: #f2f2f2;
    text-align: center;
}
 
table.wikitable caption,
table.prettytable caption {
    margin-left: inherit;
    margin-right: inherit;
    font-weight: bold;
}
That CSS file is, by the way, available directly in the wiki at http://wiki.maemo.org/MediaWiki:Common.css - and editable by anyone with admin rights, I believe.


Now, I'm only guessing, but perhaps in the normal MediaWiki style there is something which automatically sets the wikitable/prettytable attribute to tables in wiki mark-up, and here that's not happening. There are a number of other wiki related issues I need to figure out, and I will keep an eye out for this too while I'm at it.

Hopefully, though, if I don't get to it straight away the fact that I'm not the only one who knows where to find everything means that others will be able to reproduce & perhaps fix the issues themselves?

Thanks,
Dave.
 

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