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==Style classes==

Some users have created [[w:CSS|CSS]] classes and [[Help:templates|templates]] to make table styles easier. Instead of remembering table parameters, you just include an appropriate style class after the <code>{|</code>. This helps keep table formatting consistent, and can allow a single change to the class to fix a problem or enhance the look of all the tables that are using it at once. For instance, this:

Some users have created [[wikipedia:CSS|CSS]] classes and [[Help:templates|templates]] to make table styles easier. Instead of remembering table parameters, you just include an appropriate style class after the <code>{|</code>. This helps keep table formatting consistent, and can allow a single change to the class to fix a problem or enhance the look of all the tables that are using it at once. For instance, this:

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simply by replacing the parameters of the table (<code>border="1" cellpadding="2"</code> or the like) with <code><nowiki>class="wikitable"</nowiki></code> This is because the ''wikitable'' class in [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki:Common.css|MediaWiki:Common.css]] contains a number of ''table.wikitable'' [[w:CSS|CSS]] style rules. These are all applied at once when you mark a table with the class. You can then add additional style rules if desired. These override the class's rules, allowing you to use the class style as a base and build up on it:

simply by replacing the parameters of the table (<code>border="1" cellpadding="2"</code> or the like) with <code><nowiki>class="wikitable"</nowiki></code> This is because the ''wikitable'' class in [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki:Common.css|MediaWiki:Common.css]] contains a number of ''table.wikitable'' [[wikipedia:CSS|CSS]] style rules. These are all applied at once when you mark a table with the class. You can then add additional style rules if desired. These override the class's rules, allowing you to use the class style as a base and build up on it:

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 ==Style classes==
-Some users have created [[w:CSS|CSS]] classes and [[Help:templates|templates]] to make table styles easier.  Instead of remembering table parameters, you just include an appropriate style class after the <code>{|</code>.  This helps keep table formatting consistent, and can allow a single change to the class to fix a problem or enhance the look of all the tables that are using it at once.  For instance, this:
+Some users have created [[wikipedia:CSS|CSS]] classes and [[Help:templates|templates]] to make table styles easier.  Instead of remembering table parameters, you just include an appropriate style class after the <code>{|</code>.  This helps keep table formatting consistent, and can allow a single change to the class to fix a problem or enhance the look of all the tables that are using it at once.  For instance, this:
 <table border="0" align="center"><tr><td width="46%">
 <blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;"><pre><nowiki>
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-simply by replacing the parameters of the table (<code>border="1" cellpadding="2"</code> or the like) with <code><nowiki>class="wikitable"</nowiki></code>  This is because the ''wikitable'' class in [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki:Common.css|MediaWiki:Common.css]] contains a number of ''table.wikitable'' [[w:CSS|CSS]] style rules.  These are all applied at once when you mark a table with the class.  You can then add additional style rules if desired.  These override the class's rules, allowing you to use the class style as a base and build up on it:
+simply by replacing the parameters of the table (<code>border="1" cellpadding="2"</code> or the like) with <code><nowiki>class="wikitable"</nowiki></code>  This is because the ''wikitable'' class in [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki:Common.css|MediaWiki:Common.css]] contains a number of ''table.wikitable'' [[wikipedia:CSS|CSS]] style rules.  These are all applied at once when you mark a table with the class.  You can then add additional style rules if desired.  These override the class's rules, allowing you to use the class style as a base and build up on it:
 ==== Wiki markup ====
 <blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;"><pre><nowiki>

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