Forum:Tables need headers

Although it can be intimidating at first, making a table in wikicode is actually pretty easy, particularly because we've made it simple to style tables using. But you do have to know what all the little symbols do:

What's really important here is the difference between a pipe (|) and an exclamation point (!). If you start the second line of your table — that is, the line that has all the column titles — with a pipe, you'll still get a table. But the resulting table will have no true header.

For instance, an awful lot of tables wrongly use the pipe like this:

This produces the following:

Okay, that's a table, technically. But it's got no header. See how you can mouseover the first row just as easily as the second? That shouldn't be happening.

What you need to do, therefore, is to actually declare the writer/director/producer line as the table header. You do this by beginning that line with an exclamation mark, not a pipe. Here's the right way to make a table with wikicode:

It's a tiny change. But notice the dramatic difference in the output:

Notice that you can, if you wish, use multiple exclamation points:

05:51: Mon 14 May 2012