Help:Broadtable format

The result format broadtable is used to format query results as tables. It is identical to the table format except that the broadtable stretches the table to 100% of the available width.

General
The parameter  is specifically useful for hiding the header of tables (in most other cases, it is enough to use empty printout labels to hide the titles of printout statements).

Sorting
Tables have a special feature for sorting their contents by any of the columns in the table. See Help:Selecting pages for general comments on sorting and a comparison to the wiki's query result sorting. Browsers without JavaScript enabled will not see the buttons for sorting at all.

Example
This produces the following output:


 * More examples

Applying CSS formatting
As of Semantic MediaWiki 1.6.2 the native MediaWiki sortable tables are used. Thus this format now provides several ways for custom formatting to be applied to tables:
 * One or more overall CSS classes can be set for the table, using the "class=" parameter.
 * Each column in the table gets a class name that derives from the column name. For instance, if a column is titled "Capital city", the column's class will be "Capital-city".
 * Rows in the table each get either the class "row-odd" or "row-even", depending on whether the row is odd or even.

In this way, specific formatting, like colors and font sizes, can be set across a single table, or for a specific column, or can be set for alternating rows. The recommended way to set any custom CSS in the wiki is by modifying the page "MediaWiki:Common.css".

The example below will result in the display of alternating rows.
 * Example for alternating row colours

Data value type attributes
Semantic MediaWiki 1.9.0 introduces type related attribution allowing to apply specific formatting rules based on the datatype uses (data value types like " ", " " etc.) used in a column.CiteRef::gerrit:smw:53520

The class attribute is a concatenated string that includes " " + " " resulting in " " for the data value of datatype "Date". If you want all numeric representations (prerequisite is that the property selected for display is of datatype "Number") in a table to be formatted on the right side, you would need to add: