Module:Wikitable

This module is rated as ready for general use. It has reached a mature form and is thought to be bug-free and ready for use wherever appropriate. It is ready to mention on help pages and other Wikipedia resources as an option for new users to learn. To reduce server load and bad output, it should be improved by sandbox testing rather than repeated trial-and-error editing.

Usage

This module is designed to make passing tables to templates less of a hassle.

Oftentimes, adding wikitable markup to a template or other parser tag generates gibberish when one fails to escape every | and =. Moreover, escaping pipe characters with {{!}} everywhere can make for some rather ugly-looking markup.

With this module, most wikitables can be embedded into templates without escaping any pipe characters. Also, = for <table> element attributes do not need to be escaped, however, for individual rows and cells, such is still necessary. Finally, there must be at least one pipe character before the first header cell (only an issue if |- is omitted before the first row)

For examples see wikipedia page [[wikipedia:For examples see wikipedia page wikipedia:

local p = {};
local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs
local buffer = require("Module:Buffer")('{|')
function p.main(frame)
	local args =  getArgs(frame, {removeBlanks=false, trim=false} )
	for k, v in pairs(args) do
		if type(k) ~= 'number' then buffer:_(string.format(string.match(v, '^["\']') and ' %s=%s' or ' %s="%s"', k, v)) end
	end
	buffer:_'\n'
	for _, v in ipairs(args) do
		if not string.match(v, '^!') then buffer:_'|' end
		buffer:_(v)
	end
	return table.concat(buffer:_'\n|}')
end
return p;