ikiwiki/ ikiwiki/ directive/ table

The `table` directive is supplied by the table plugin.

This directive can build HTML tables from data in CSV (comma-separated values) or DSV (delimiter-separated values) format.

## examples

    [[!table  data="""
    Customer |Amount
    Fulanito |134,34
    Menganito|234,56
    Menganito|234,56
    """]]

    [[!table  class="book_record" format=csv file="data/books/record1"]]

In this second example the `record1` page should be similar to:

    "Title","Perl Best Practices"
    "Author","Damian Conway"
    "Publisher","O’Reilly"

To make a cell span multiple columns, follow it with one or more empty cells. For example:

    [[!table  data="""
    left||right|
    a|b|c|d
    this cell spans **4** columns|||
    """]]

## usage

- `data` - Values for the table.
- `file` - A file in the wiki containing the data.
- `format` - The format of the data, either "csv", "dsv", or "auto" (the default).
- `delimiter` - The character used to separate fields. By default, DSV format uses a pipe (`|`), and CSV uses a comma (`,`).
- `class` - A CSS class for the table html element.
- `header` - By default, or if set to "row", the first data line is used as the table header. Set it to "no" to make a table without a header, or "column" to make the first column be the header.

For tab-delimited tables (often obtained by copying and pasting from HTML or a spreadsheet), `delimiter` must be set to a literal tab character. These are difficult to type in most web browsers - copying and pasting one from the table data is likely to be the easiest way.

Note that the contents of table cells can contain arbitrary ikiwiki and markdown markup.