How to Create a Table in the Knowledgebase

This is a tutorial on how to organize your information in a table using Textile web text markup-language.

Let’s say that this is the table you would like to create:

Name Birthday Albert January 11 Jeffrey August 17 Sara February 15

1. Begin and end each row of your table with a vertical bar, or |. Also, insert a vertical bar between text to differentiate one column from the next. Thus your first row should look like this:

|Name|Birthday|

2. Follow the same format for the additional rows:

3. To distinguish the column headers, bold the text in the first row:

4. Finally, if you would like to put a border around your entire table insert CSS coding.

table{border:1px solid black}

“1px” refers to the thickness of the line in pixels. The higher the number the thicker the line.

“solid” distinguishes the style of the line. You can also use dotted, dashed, double, groove, ridge, inset, or outset.

“black” is the color. You can also insert the name of another color such as red or gray.

table{border:1px solid black}
|*Name*|*Birthday*|
|Albert|January 11|
|Jeffrey|August 17|
|Sara|February 15|

Which will look like this:

Name Birthday Albert January 11 Jeffrey August 17 Sara February 15

For more tips, go to http://swik.net/Textile

Also see UCLA KB formating.

How to Create a Table in the Knowledgebase

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