Help with Tables/Talk

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Is it possible to center a whole table on the page?

Thanks,
— Hypnos ^(talk)

Not directly without using a table class (if you know CSS and are the admin of the wiki, you can define centered tables as a new class of tables), but you can do:

This is directed at someone who doesn't know HTML:

What "type" of table attribute makes more sense to you? These:

• <50%>: cell width
  

• <-2>: colspan
  

• <|2>: rowspan
  

• <(>: left aligned
  

• align="center" or <:>: centered
  

• <)>: right aligned
  

• <^>: aligned to top
  

• <v>: aligned to bottom

Or these:

• width="50%"
  

• colspan="2"
  

• rowspan="2"
  

• align="left"
  

• align="center"
  

• align="right"
  

• valign="top"
  

• valign="bottom"

?

Opinions:

• Eli: thinks html-style is more intuitive. More long-winded but easier if you're not a ninja-expert.
  

• Brent: thinks shorthand style is easier to use, but harder to understand. For instance, <(|2^> is pretty simple, but looks like gibberish. I feel like there's probably something simpler than html attributes, though. Maybe <right top colspan(2)>?
  

  As such I think this is pretty awesome, a new person could simply add whatever tag at the end of the gibberish and everything should work fine.