Help:Broadtable format
| Broadtable format | |
|---|---|
| Outputs the result in a broad table. | |
| Further Information | |
| Provided by: | Semantic MediaWiki |
| Added: | 0.4 |
| Removed: | still supported |
| Requirements: | none |
| Format name: | broadtable |
| Enabled by default:info.pngIndicates whether the result format is enabled by default upon installation of the respective extension. | yes |
| Authors: | Markus Krötzsch |
| Categories: | misc |
| Table of Contents | |
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.
Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| intro | Text | empty | The text to display before the query results, if there are any |
| outro | Text | empty | The text to display after the query results, if there are any |
| default | Text | empty | The text to display if there are no query results |
| class | Text | sortable wikitable smwtable | An additional CSS class to set for the table |
There are no inline query parameters specific to the broadtable format. The parameter headers=hide 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).
Example
{{#ask: [[Category:City]] [[located in::Germany]]
| ?population
| ?area#km² = Size in km²
| format=broadtable
}}
This produces the following output:
| Population | Size in km² | |
|---|---|---|
| Berlin | 3,391,409 | 891.85 km²344.343 sqmi |
| Frankfurt | 679,664 | 248.31 km²95.872 sqmi |
| Munich | 1,353,186 | 310.43 km²119.857 sqmi |
| Stuttgart | 606,588 | 207.36 km²80.062 sqmi |
Applying CSS formatting
As of version 1.6.2 SMW uses the native MediaWiki sortable tables. 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".)
- Example for alternating row colours
The example below will result in the display of alternating rows.
/* even and odd in tables*/ .smwtable .row-even {background-color:#FFF;} .smwtable .row-odd {background-color:#CDE6EA;}
Remarks
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.
