Manual:Semantic MediaWiki/Examples/Customer data/Template styling

By default, a semantic template that was created with the page Special:CreateTemplate, is displayed in a basic table format. Each property/value pair is shown in a new table row.The table width adjusts to the table content.

Default table of a semantic template

To change the table layout, we can add some styling information to the template.

Adjusting the template styling (optional)

To format the table, we create a subpage to the template. It contains the custom template styles. In the following example, we create a variation of the original table with a width of 100%, left-aligned labels and more padding in the table cells.

Customized table styling

1. Edit the page Template:Customer data in source editing mode. Add the tag and an additional class name to the class attribute of the table. In this example we, add the class name "mysmwtable":

   

   Add a template class name

2. Create the page Template:Customer data/styles.css.
3. To achieve the shown table styling, add the following code to the new styles.css.

   table.mysmwtable {
   	width:100%; /*width of the box/
   	margin: 0 0 2em 0; /*cell padding*/
   	background-color: #f8f9fa; /*background color for the table*/
   	color: #222; /*Textfarbe*/
   	border: 1px solid #a2a9b1; /*border*/
   	border-collapse: collapse; /*border*/
   }
   table.mysmwtable > tr > th, table.mysmwtable > * > tr > th {
   	background-color: #eaecf0; /*background color of the label column*/
   	text-align: left; /*alignment of the label column*/
   	width:25%;/*width of the label column*/
   }
   table.mysmwtable > tr > td, table.mysmwtable > * > tr > td {
   	background-color: #f8f9fa; /*background-color of the second column*/
   }
   table.mysmwtable > tr > th, table.mysmwtable > tr > td, table.mysmwtable > * > tr > th, table.mysmwtable > * > tr > td {
   	border: 1px solid #a2a9b1; /*border around cells*/
   	padding: 10px; /*cell padding*/
   }
   form.createbox table.formtable th {
   	padding:10px 0; /*distance between form fields*/
   }

   

   Create a custom table style

   
   Save the page.

Now you can see the new table styling.

As a variation, you can also define the background color of the table cells. For example, you can create white cell backgrounds. Change the following lines in your styles.css:

table.mysmwtable > tr > th, table.mysmwtable > * > tr > th {
	background-color: white; /*background color of the label column*/
}

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table.smwtable > tr > td, table.smwtable > * > tr > td {
	background-color: white; /*Hintergrundfarbe der Wertespalte*/
}

Infobox

You can also format the table as an infobox. An infobox is floating to the left or right of the text flow.

Infobox

1. Add the following css-code to the page Template:Customer_data/styles.css and save the template. Delete any previous styles for the class .mysmwtable to avoid any inheritance problems for the styles:

   table.mysmwtable {
   	float:right; /*right-aligned infobox*/
   	width:300px; /*width of the box*/
   	margin: 0 0 2em 2em; /*cell padding*/
   	background-color: #f8f9fa; /*background color for the table*/
   	color: #222; /*Textfarbe*/
   	border: 1px solid #a2a9b1; /*border*/
   	border-collapse: collapse; /*border*/
   }
   table.mysmwtable > tr > th, table.mysmwtable > * > tr > th {
   	background-color: #eaecf0; /*background color of the label column*/
   	text-align: left; /*alignment of the label column*/
   }
   
   table.mysmwtable > tr > th, table.mysmwtable > tr > td, table.mysmwtable > * > tr > th, table.mysmwtable > * > tr > td {
   	border: 1px solid #a2a9b1; /*border around cells*/
   	padding: 0.2em 0.4em; /*cell padding*/
   }
   form.createbox table.formtable th {
   	padding:10px 0; /*distance between form fields*/
   }
   

Tip:If you need different output formats, create separate templates to accomodate the styling. The templates can then use different subpages (styles.css) for each styling.

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