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I'm no expert when it comes to templates but... I'm about to start working on a wiki project that relies heavily on tables but first I want to make a template to ease my work. In their most basic form the tables would look like in Example 1 but more often than not they'd be a tad more complex, like in Example 2. With Template:IE I can emulate everything from those examples with the exception of column 1, I don't know how to expand it over more than 1 row like in Example 2.
Any suggestions from someone more experienced on how to get this right? by Mjoll 15:16, March 12, 2012 (EDT)

Example 1

1	2	3	4	5	6
aaa	bbb	ccc	ddd	eee	fff

Example 2

1	2	3	4	5	6
aaa	bbb	ccc ccc	ddd ddd	eee eee	fff fff
	bbb	ccc ccc ccc ccc	ddd ddd ddd ddd	eee eee eee eee	fff fff fff fff
	bbb	ccc	ddd	eee	fff

Template (half working)

Enchantment	Effect	Item	Item type	ML	Obtained from

First thing you need to do is shy away from using the default argument names (eg. {{{1}}}, {{{2}}}, ...) and define your names (eg. {{{col 1}}}, {{{col 2}}}, ...). At this point you could add another argument named {{{col 1 span|1}}}. This way, you can set |col 1 span = 3 on your calling page and add ...{{#ifeq:{{{col 1|0}}}|0||colspan = "{{{col 1 span|1}}}"}}... in your Template:IE. The trick with this is to make sure that you set |col 1 = 0 on the next two lines or it will break and fail. ShoeMaker 15:47, March 12, 2012 (EDT)

How would the finished template look like? I tried to make the changes you suggested but I only made it worse. by Mjoll 14:04, March 13, 2012 (EDT)

You did just fine, I only moved a couple things around so that they would be in the correct order.. Tests below. ShoeMaker 14:55, March 13, 2012 (EDT)

Enchantment	Effect	Item	Item type	ML	Obtained from
aaa	bbb	ccc ccc	ddd ddd	eee eee	fff fff
	bbb	ccc ccc ccc ccc	ddd ddd ddd ddd	eee eee eee eee	fff fff fff fff
	bbb	ccc	ddd	eee	fff
aaa	bbb	ccc ccc	ddd ddd	eee eee	fff fff
	bbb	ccc ccc ccc ccc	ddd ddd ddd ddd	eee eee eee eee	fff fff fff fff
	bbb	ccc	ddd	eee	fff
	bbb	ccc ccc	ddd ddd	eee eee	fff fff
	bbb	ccc ccc ccc ccc	ddd ddd ddd ddd	eee eee eee eee	fff fff fff fff
	bbb	ccc	ddd	eee	fff
aaa	bbb	ccc ccc	ddd ddd	eee eee	fff fff
aaa	bbb	ccc ccc ccc ccc	ddd ddd ddd ddd	eee eee eee eee	fff fff fff fff
aaa	bbb	ccc	ddd	eee	fff

There, after much tweaking and a change from wikitable to html table coding, it seems to work for what you want.. ShoeMaker 14:55, March 13, 2012 (EDT)

Excellent. Thank you Technical, that's exactly what I was looking for. by Mjoll 15:51, March 14, 2012 (EDT)