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Bryan
Asked: 2010-04-03 13:36:54 +0800 CST

Creating Tables in DokuWiki

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I'm trying to create a table in DokuWiki, with a cell that vertically spans, however unlike the examples in the syntax guide, the cell I want to create has more than one row of text.

The following is an ASCII version of what I'm trying to achieve

+-----------+-----------+
| Heading 1 | Heading 2 |
+-----------+-----------+
|           | Multiple  |
| Some text | rows of   |
|           | text      |
+-----------+-----------+

I've tried the following syntax

^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^
| Some text | Multiple  |
| :::       | rows of   |
| :::       | text      |

but this generates the output

+-----------+-----------+
| Heading 1 | Heading 2 |
+-----------+-----------+
|           | Multiple  |
|           +-----------+
| Some text | rows of   |
|           +-----------+
|           | text      |
+-----------+-----------+

I can't find anything in the DokuWiki documentation, so I'm hoping I'm missing something fundamentally simple?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^
| Some text | Multiple\\ rows of\\ text |

    All you need is line breaks within a table cell. Enjoy!

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  2. I know it's a long time after question was answered, but just to give more options to community:

    You can also use plug-ins like EditTable for visual editing of tables (like in Microsoft Excel): https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:edittable

    And the other options are listed here: https://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:table_editing

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