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General

In Wikidpad tables can be used. For the time being however, this remains limited to the default html table style. No formatting facilities are available for tables.

A table is defined inside a table block; a construct analogous to the escape blocks (see Textformatting: Escape). A table block is defined by the "<<|" and ">>" start and ending tags. These tags must be alone on an otherwise empty line; you cán however put a tab in front of the opening tag, to indent the table. Each line of text in the block forms a table row, individual cells in the row are separated by a vertical bar (" | ").

Example: results in Top

Formatting cell content

In a table cell the following formatting elements can be used: Top
[1] This is footnote 1.

Multi line cell content

The content of a cell can be split over two or more lines, by breaking it up over as many page lines and separating the line parts by a backslash. An example in this case, tells more then text can:
In the above example the definition for row 1 effectively has been split over 4 consecutive page lines, resulting in a not all together easy-reference structure. An easier way would be to simply add a few html "<br />" tags in the cell content, to break it up over multiple lines; like this:
View this section in the editor, to see the difference in structure and reference.

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Tab as cell delimiter

As an alternative, also the Tab can be used as cell delimiter. To use this, start the table block with the "<<|t" tag instead of the "<<|" tag. Example:
Important!
This facility can only be used, when the option: "menu / Editor / Settings / Tabs to spaces" is not switch on.

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