Extension:SimpleTable
 | Warning: The code or configuration described here poses a major security risk. Site administrators: You are advised against using it until this security issue is resolved. Problem: Vulnerable to Cross-site scripting attacks, because it passes user input directly to the browser. This may lead to user accounts being hijacked, among other things. Solution: strictly validate user input and/or apply escaping to all characters that have a special meaning in HTML |
 Release status: unstable |
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| Implementation | Tag |
| Description | Converts tab- (or comma-) separated data into a Wiki table. |
| Author(s) | JohanTheGhost |
| Maintainer(s) | Vicarage |
| MediaWiki | 1.35+ |
| License | No license specified |
| Download | GitHub: Note: |
The SimpleTable extension allows tabular data to be easily cut-and-pasted into a Wiki; for example, this allows a CSV export from Excel to be pasted in without having to manually edit it into Wiki table syntax. It's really crude, and doesn't allow any kind of clever formatting; for example, there is no way to set row and cell parameters, including row and cell spanning.
Usage[edit]
All you need to do is prepare your data in rows, with fields separated by tab characters. (Excel's "Save as" → "Text (Tab delimited)" function saves data in this format.) Place the data inside <tab>...</tab> tags, and set any table parameters inside the opening <tab> tag:
<tab border=1> Field 1→Field 2→Field 3 Field 4→Field 5→Field 6 Field 7→Field 8→Field 9 </tab>
(where → represents a tab character) produces the corresponding table. Most table parameters should work; for example, if your wiki has the wikitable CSS class defined, then this markup should work:
<tab class=wikitable> . . .
Parameter: sep[edit]
You can use a different separator, using the sep parameter.
Values[edit]
sep can be one of:
- tab
- a tab
- space
- a space
- spaces
- one or more spaces and/or tabs
- comma
- a comma
- bar
- a vertical bar (|)
- semicolon
- a semicolon
Parameter: head[edit]
You can also specify that either the top row or the left column should be formatted as a heading, using the head parameter.
Values[edit]
head can be one of:
- top
- make the top row a heading
- left
- make the left column a heading
- topleft
- do both
Oddly Top headings are done by default if head is omitted, use 'head=' to remove them
Example[edit]
<tab class=wikitable sep=comma head=top> Head 1,Head 2,Head 3 Field 4,Field 5,Field 6 Field 7,Field 8,Field 9 </tab>
produces a table with a heading row and two data rows, all having three columns.
Installation[edit]
- Download, unzip and place the file(s) in a directory called
SimpleTablein yourextensions/folder. - Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
wfLoadExtension( 'SimpleTable' );
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
