Template talk:wikitable

An unnecessary complication
This format is already represented in our style sheet MediaWiki:Common.css. Just replace this:

With this:

—Michael Z. 2013-12-14 20:41 z 

About 450 transclusions and redirects. This is unnecessary. It merely adds the text  to a table. Every instance should be replaced with the literal text. The actual effect of the class is set by CSS that is now built into the MediaWiki software, and can be overridden by putting CSS in our local style sheet MediaWiki:Common.css.

Disadvantages of keeping this template include:


 * 1) An unnecessary transclusion
 * 2) Standard literal HTML code is being hidden behind a layer of wiki template, but its function is controlled in style sheets, not in the template
 * 3) The danger of applying multiple class attributes to a table, which could cause broken and unpredictable styling, and could be difficult to diagnose

When replacing, multiple class attributes should be combined. For example:

Resolves as:

And should be replaced with

—Michael Z. 2013-12-14 21:34 z 
 * Definitely delete. 21:42, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Aye. Mglovesfun (talk) 00:51, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and deprecated the template. It now needs to be orphaned. --WikiTiki89 04:22, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Template:prettytable and Template:prettytable100 also need to be orphaned and deleted. --WikiTiki89 04:35, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll use my bot to orphan them, if you allow me to. --kc_kennylau (talk) 07:50, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I think that would be fine, as long as you follow the example that Michael gave above of when there is another class= after the . --WikiTiki89 07:54, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Started doing it with . Please check his contributions if there is any mistake, and tell me at once, I'll be watching this page. --kc_kennylau (talk) 08:27, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Finished. --kc_kennylau (talk) 09:34, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Excellent! Deleted. --WikiTiki89 09:44, 2 February 2014 (UTC)