HRWiki:autocolumn

Description: An extension to easily create tables whose columns have equal lengths (or nearly so), especially for tables that are updated often.

Filename: exfAutoColumn.php

Written by: It's dot com ©2006

Please put any bugs or feature requests on the talk page.

Format

<table [parameters]>

<autocolumn [parameters]>

[single list of content to be automatically divided]

</autocolumn>
</table>

Parameters

The parameters in the <table> tag are the normal table parameters, and are optional.

The available <autocolumn> parameters are listed below. Each one is optional.

cols – the number of columns (the default is 2)

width – the remaining parameters are normal cell parameters

align

valign – "top" is the default value

class

style

You cannot have fewer than 2 columns (unless there is only 1 item in the list), nor can you have more columns than total items in the list. The function removes all extra white space between the tags and then formats each column according to standard wiki markup rules.

Known limitations

• Automatic text replacement (for example, when signing using tildes (~~~~)) is not supported. This feature will be included when we upgrade to MediaWiki 1.6.

Variations

• You can use wiki table markup ( {| ... |} ) instead of HTML (see gallery sample 1).
• You can have a header row (see gallery sample 1).
• You can stack <autocolumn> rows within the same table (see gallery sample 2).
• If the entire list is an ordered list (each line begins with a # and has no subitems), it will be correctly numbered across the columns (see gallery sample 3).

Example

<table width="80%">
<autocolumn cols="3" width="33%">
*'''Debut:''' [[some kinda robot]]
*[[i she be]]
*[[guitar]]
*[[island]]
*[[japanese cartoon]]
*[[personal favorites]]
*[[different town]]
*[[radio]]
*[[rock opera]]
*[[technology]]
</autocolumn>
</table>

Debut: some kinda robot i she be guitar island

japanese cartoon personal favorites different town

radio rock opera technology

Gallery

View the source code to see how each table was made. You can also experiment in the sandbox.

Sample 1

Selected Toons
20X6 vs. 1936 500 The Cheats A Folky Tale A Jorb Well Done Arcade Game Ballad of The Sneak Bug In Mouth Disease Cheat Commandos	Cheat Commandos...O's Commandos in the Classroom Cool Things Experimental Film Fluffy Puff Commercial In Search of the Yello Dello Kick the Can Lookin at a Thing in a Bag	Meet Marshie Mr. Shmallow Parsnips A-Plenty Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer Peasant's Quest Preview Senor Mortgage Shopping For Danger	Sick Day Strong Bad is a Bad Guy Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon Strong Bad Sings The Cheatar The Interview The King of Town DVD	The Li'l Brudder Show The Luau The Reddest Radish The System is Down Theme Song Video Trogdor Con '97 Where's The Cheat?

Sample 2

Before I drink a tall glass	of melonade I like to eat	about 147 Fluffy Puff Marshmallows	Seriously folks they're the best
You heard	it folks	Homestar likes	marshmallows

Sample 3

AbdiViklas Alcnolien Bad Graphics Ghost BazookaJoe Bill Bluebry muffin Chmera Csours Dantheburgerking Darthvader66 DorianGray Double J FireBird Frickinsellout GWR 2004

Has Matt? Heimstern Läufer It's dot com ItalianBallerina Jay Jetamoo Joshua KieferSkunk Kilroy Lapper LePorello Mycroft Holmes NFITC1 Nintendostar Runner Octan

Qermaq Rogue Leader Sam Goldfish Seriously Shadow Hog Spell4yr Teh Frossty One Thunderbird L17 Trelawney Trey56 Venusy Xeroc YK Yourmomgoestocollege